Doing memory with needle and thread: Narrating transformations of violent conflict

Berit Bliesemann de Guevara; Roxani Krystalli

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Doing memory with needle and thread: Narrating transformations of violent conflict

Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Roxani Krystalli

Department of International Politics

University of St Andrews

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The two authors embark on a conversation about how textiles open up space for different kinds of storytelling — understood as central to interpretive research — about violence, memory and transformation in the aftermath of armed conflict. They draw on their respective research and experiences in the context of the armed conflict and fragile peace process in Colombia, where Roxani investigates the politics and hierarchies of victimhood, and Berit is involved in a project that combines narrative practice and textile narratives into a methodology to explore former guerrilla combatants’ subjectivities and wider society’s resonances to their preferred stories. Photos of textiles and textile-making accompany their conversation.

Original language	English
Number of pages	21
Journal	Contemporary Voices
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.15664/jtr.1630
Publication status	Published - 05 Jan 2022

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Arias, B. (PI), Bliesemann de Guevara, B. (PI), Ceballos Garcia, G. (CoI), Torres Marín, B. (CoI), Andra, C. (Researcher), Coral, L. (Researcher), Parra, E. P. (Researcher) & Rendon, M. (Researcher)
Arts and Humanities Research Council
14 Aug 2018 → 20 Aug 2020
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