Managing Testimony and Administrating Victims

Explores the subjects of memory and reconciliation in politics in Colombia in 2005 Critiques the emerging contradictions between memory, politics, and academia in Colombia during the Álvaro Uribe Vélez administration Analyses how to administer transitional scenarios during war Presents a critical view of the transitional dispositive scenario in Colombia from 2005 onwards

Autorentext
Juan Pablo Aranguren Romero is Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of the Andes, Colombia. He holds an MA in Social Anthropology and a PhD in Social Sciences. His research focuses on the intersections of body, suffering, and political violence. Aranguren is author of Cuerpos al límite: tortura, subjetividad y memoria en Colombia ( 2016) and Las inscripciones de la guerra en el cuerpo de los jóvenes combatientes (2011).

Inhalt

1. The Origins of Victimization and the Administration of War in Colombia .- 2. Justice and Peace in times of Impunity and War .- 3. Voice, Testimony, Truth, and Memory .- 4. Maintaining Exclusion .- 5. Conclusion.