Learning Through Collective Memory Work

Troubling Testimonio in Post-War Peru
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-3786-3
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

This book traces the process of producing testimonio with the children of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), an insurgent group during Peru’s internal war (1980–2000). It examines how the group navigates post-war struggles over memory while dealing with the ‘children of terrorists’ stigma.

Drawing on a cycles of inquiry approach, the book theorizes three movements for memory work: a realist presentation of testimonial narratives, a ‘politics of memory’ engaging with the conditions of production and a ‘poetics of memory’ that troubles memory, voice and representation for qualitative inquiry in post-war contexts.

Challenging the notion of war-torn countries as pure devastation, the author invites readers to see them as sites of knowledge and creativity, with much to offer for education, peace studies and social justice research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson Va´squez, Goya

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. The Story of the Inquiry

Part 1: The First Movement – Testimonial Narratives

3. Adelín: Political Prisoners in the Family

4. Miguel: Experiences of Exile

5. Iris: Growing Up Visiting Prison

6. Rafael: Living under Silence

7. Abel: Knowing More than You Should

8. Willy: Remembering Torture

Part 2: The Second Movement – Politics of Memory

9. Spaces/Places: Working Out Testimonial Spaces

10. Silences, Secrets and Clandestine Lives

Part 3: The Third Movement – Poetics of Memory

11. Troubles with Fiction, Writing and Memory

12. Writing (about) Violence

13. Epilogue: Testimonio as Pedagogy

Über Autor(innen)

Wilson Va´squez, Goya
Goya Wilson Vásquez is a researcher affiliated to the University of Bristol. She works on memory struggles and creative/radical methodologies from Latin America by examining the dilemmas of writing violence, the intersections between research and activism, and the uses of creativity/imagination in memory work.