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

Maddalena Tacchetti*, Alexandra Chocontá-Piraquive, Natalia Quiceno Toro, Dimitris Papadopoulos

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1327-1345
Number of pages19
JournalMemory Studies
Volume17
Issue number6
Early online date28 Aug 2023
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 28 Aug 2023

Keywords

  • Colombia
  • craft
  • memorial practices
  • memorial reparation
  • memory
  • repair
  • reparation
  • testimonial textiles

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