CUANDO EL ARCHIVO ESTÁ EN EL TESTIGO: DOCUMENTACIÓN EN ESCENARIOS DE INSEGURIDAD CRÓNICA

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2012-01-01

CUANDO EL ARCHIVO ESTÁ EN EL TESTIGO: DOCUMENTACIÓN EN ESCENARIOS DE INSEGURIDAD CRÓNICA

WHEN THE FILE IS IN THE WITNESS: DOCUMENTATION IN SCENARIOS OF CHRONIC INSECURITY

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memoria histórica, documentación, archivo y justicia transicional (es)
historical memory, documentation, filing and transitional justice (en)

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Pilar Riaño-Alcalá Universidad de Columbia Británica
Erin Baines Universidad de Columbia Británica

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Mediante un intercambio entre los miembros de organizaciones comunitarias que documentan violaciones de derechos humanos en el noroeste de Colombia y en el norte de Uganda, este artículo examina estrategias de construcción de memoria en las que un individuo o un colectivo crea un espacio social seguro para dar testimonio y re-historiar hechos de violencia o de resistencia. En escenarios de inseguridad crónica, tales actos constituyen un reservorio de documentos vivos que preservan los recuerdos, dan testimonio, combaten la impunidad y transmiten el sentido o la "veracidad" de los supervivientes. El archivo viviente trastorna las suposiciones convencionales en torno a qué es documentación o testimonio en el ámbito de la justicia transicional e introduce nuevas herramientas interdisciplinarias con las cuales aprender de y escuchar a los supervivientes en forma diferente.

Through an exchange between members of community organizations documenting human rights violations in northwest Colombia and northern Uganda, this article examines strategies for building memory where an individual or a group creates a safe social space to give testimony and re-story-telling acts of violence or resistance. In scenarios of chronic insecurity, such acts constitute a reservoir of living documents that preserve the memories, testify, reduce impunity and convey the sense or "veracity" of the survivors. The living file overturns conventional assumptions about what is a document or testimony in the field of transitional justice. It also introduces new interdisci plinary tools with which to learn from and listen to survivors in a different way.

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