Memorial reparation: Women’s work of remembrance, repair and restoration in rural Colombia

The article discusses the reparative textile-making practices of three women’s sewing collectives in Colombia. Textile making and crafting is also a memory work which intersects and negotiates with different geographies, temporalities and scales of human subjectivity, social interaction and ecologic...

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Published in:Memory studies 2024-12, Vol.17 (6), p.1327-1345
Main Authors: Tacchetti, Maddalena, Chocontá-Piraquive, Alexandra, Quiceno Toro, Natalia, Papadopoulos, Dimitris
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Language:English
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Summary:The article discusses the reparative textile-making practices of three women’s sewing collectives in Colombia. Textile making and crafting is also a memory work which intersects and negotiates with different geographies, temporalities and scales of human subjectivity, social interaction and ecological belonging. We approach textile memory work as a practice embedded in a complex net of other everyday practices, spaces, and human and non-human beings, enabling the production of collective memories, while facilitating transformational processes by which women materially resignify and recover their communities affected by war. Textile memory work is a socially and ecologically situated practice of repair and reparation from below.
ISSN:1750-6980
1750-6999
DOI:10.1177/17506980231188482