Memories of victimized women in Meta, Colombia: Violence and latent tensions

Authors

  • Paola Andrea Díaz Bonilla Universidad Nacional de La Plata

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53351/ruhm.v12i25.1028

Keywords:

memory, women, violence, armed conflict, Department of Meta

Abstract

in this paper I inted to explore the memories built by three women victim of the Colombian armed conflicto who suffered types of violencia, in the midst of a series of dynamics of the war that occurred in the tepartment of Meta, where determinant factors for the recent history of the region: the successive of colonization that the Orinoquía region has suffered, the presence of illicit crops and armed actors, as well as the rol played by the demilitarized zone (1998-2002) during one of the times of greatest exacerbation of the conflicto armed in the country. This qualitative research takes up oral hitor up oral hitor as a methodological tool base don the use of the phenomenalogical interview for the articulation of the meanings that Carmen, Antonia and Cecilia give to the experience lived in said context. In this way, the article is organized in five sections: the first exámenes the memories built by the participating women in relation to the place they had within the dynamics of the armed conflict that occurred in the region, emphasizing the display of symbolic violence in his against. The second offers a reflection on what the confrontations have meant for the victims in contexts permeated by the violence that has been generated in armed conflicts such as the Colombian one. The third provides a reflection on the meaning that children acquire as a coping mechanism that leads to the politicization of motherhood. As a fourth section, the collective confrontation of the organizational capacity of the women of Meta to resist the war is addressed. Finally, the conclusions offer a look that seeks to find the relationships between maternity as a vector of the political action of the participants and the processes that link pacifist notions aimed at the enforceability of the rights of the victims, leading to the transformation of the dimensions subjective and intersubjective of women.

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Paola Andrea Díaz Bonilla, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Investigadora de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata

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Díaz Bonilla, P. A. (2024). Memories of victimized women in Meta, Colombia: Violence and latent tensions. Revista Universitaria De Historia Militar, 12(25), 14–34. https://doi.org/10.53351/ruhm.v12i25.1028

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Vol. 12 No. 25 (2023): Mujeres en guerras, perspectivas discursivas

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