Narrar como Construcción de Memoria Viva: una Práctica Sanadora y de Resistencia en la Búsqueda de los Desaparecidos en Colombia

Abstract

Since the third semester of my academic training I have been part of the Eirene Latin America seed mill, where I have participated in projects aimed at building territorial peace and the visibility of historically excluded actors, such as "Youth political participation in the West of Boyacá" and "Women’s political participation in Chaparral, Tolima". These investigative experiences have strengthened my interest in narratives as tools of social transformation, which is reflected in the article "Narrating as a construction of living memory: a healing and resistance practice in the search for those missing from the armed conflict in Colombia". In this work I analyze, from a qualitative and narrative approach, how relatives of missing persons convert the act of narrating into a living memory practice that resignifies pain, reconstructs identities and resists forgetting. Based on the testimonies of José Movilla and Yudi Huertas, the article addresses dimensions such as forced disappearance, displacement, psychosocial impacts and symbolic practices that family members perform to keep memory alive. Thus, both my career in the seed mill and this article share an ethical and political commitment to recognize the voices of victims as fundamental in the construction of truth, justice and peace in Colombia.