Mapuche mnemonics: Beyond modernity’s violence

Gómez‐Barris, Macarena

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“…Cultural violence refers to the cultural practices that facilitate this kind of violence (Galtung, 1990). 7 While not all transitional justice interventions have a transformative aim, the paradigm of transformative justice has quickly gained prominence in the field of transitional justice (Gready & Robins, 2014;Ketelaars, 2018).…”

Section: Contained Temporal Mandates Vs Structural Violence and Injusticementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This, however, does not make these principles any less interesting from a theoretical point of view, as they reflect the core values and conceptual logic of restorative justice. The framework we construct on the basis of these principles is a proposal to move beyond the critiques of transitional justice's temporality in a constructive manner and to develop a temporal conceptual framework that starts from an acknowledgment of complexity (Homer-Dixon, 2011) and messiness (Goodale, 2006;Nowotny, 2017) rather than obscuring them.…”

Section: A New Conceptual Framework For Transitional Temporalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Using restorative justice to rethink the temporality of transition in Chile

Haan¹,

Destrooper²

2021

The International Journal of Restorative Justice

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Assumptions of linear progress and a clean break with the past have long characterised transitional justice interventions. This notion of temporality has increasingly been problematised in transitional justice scholarship and practice. Scholars have argued that a more complex understanding of temporalities is needed that better accommodates the temporal messiness and complexity of transitions, including their ongoingness, multilayeredness and multidirectionality. Existing critiques, however, have not yet resulted in a new conceptual framework for thinking about transitional temporalities. This article builds on insights from the field of restorative justice to develop such a framework. This framework foregrounds longer timelines, multilayered temporalities and temporal ecologies to better reflect reality on the ground and victims' lived experiences. We argue that restorative justice is a useful starting point to develop such a temporal framework because of its actor-oriented, flexible and interactive nature and proximity to the field of transitional justice. Throughout this article we use the case of Chile to illustrate some of the complex temporal dynamics of transition and to illustrate what a more context-sensitive temporal lens could mean for such cases of unfinished transition.

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Section: Contained Temporal Mandates Vs Structural Violence and Injusticementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A New Conceptual Framework For Transitional Temporalitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using restorative justice to rethink the temporality of transition in Chile

Haan¹,

Destrooper²

2021

The International Journal of Restorative Justice

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“…As Andermann (, p. 6) notes in his study of memorialisation practices in post‐dictatorship Latin America, “places of memory” such as monuments and museums must be understood both in terms of the physical, material sites they occupy, and the symbolic forms and practices such sites represent (see also Foote & Azaryahu, ). In Latin America, considerable attention has been paid to such sites and their associated memorial practices in the context of post‐conflict reconciliation processes (e.g., Gómez‐Barris, ; Meade, ). Far less is known, however, about the ways that “natural” landscapes are remembered individually and collectively, and the potential – often unmet – that these memories hold for political action (Legg, ).…”

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Mining, meaning and memory in the Andes

Perreault

2017

Geographical Journal

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This paper examines the relationship between mining, memory and environmental suffering on the Bolivian Altiplano (Andean plateau). Mining activity has had a long and well documented role in transforming landscapes throughout the Andean region, and Bolivia provides some of South America's starkest examples of mine‐related water and soil contamination. In Bolivia, mining is publicly memorialised as central to the collective national experience, and public murals and monuments help construct a national identity as a país minero (mining country). Memory is similarly important, though less public, for populations impacted by mine‐related pollution and their demands for remediation and reparation. In discussing these conditions, residents of the region draw on memories of past landscapes and waterscapes, which they often represent as verdant and bountiful. Such memory narratives are less important for what they tell us about the former landscapes – which were likely less pristine than reported – than what they tell us about contemporary conditions. Drawing on ethnographic research, I argue that memory – as represented in stories told about past experience – necessarily requires selective remembering and selective forgetting, and may function as a political and ideological resource in its own right. In this sense, memory can be mobilised in various forms and at a range of scales, from the individual to the national. As a representation of the past, memory is always also a representation of the present, and a reflection of contemporary realities, which in turn informs political demands. The paper ends by considering the potential and limitations of memory as a conceptual tool for envisioning environmentally just futures.

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“…There are many similar examples in contemporary anthropology and cultural and decolonial studies. In her article ‘Mapuche Mnemonics’, for example, Macarena Gómez-Barris (2015) links the longue durée to non-Western epistemologies of time and the past by showing the importance of Mapuche mnemonics for the organisation of social life before and after colonisation. In doing so, she also questions the contemporary Chilean model of transitional justice, which does not allow for considering colonial injustice due to its restricted time frame links.…”

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Memory worlds: Reframing time and the past – An introduction

2020

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This article, a prologue to the special issue ‘Memory Worlds: Reframing Time and the Past’, is a follow-up to the plenary session ‘Connecting Memory Traditions around the World’, organised by the authors in the Third Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association held in Madrid (2019). Elaborating on the work of critical physicists such as Rovelli and Barad, it calls into question hegemonic conceptions of linear time and the past in two ways. First, by bringing in crucial concepts elaborated in the field of memory studies that anticipate, support or may accommodate this claim. Secondly, by summoning social anthropology to the debate, as a field where subaltern epistemologies of time and the past have become a crucial area of research in the last decades. The article calls for the broadening of the Memory Studies agenda in order to move beyond implicit well-established conceptions of linear time that may obscure or obliterate alternate epistemologies, usually dwelling in the margins.

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Mapuche mnemonics: Beyond modernity’s violence

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Using restorative justice to rethink the temporality of transition in Chile

Using restorative justice to rethink the temporality of transition in Chile

Mining, meaning and memory in the Andes

Memory worlds: Reframing time and the past – An introduction

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