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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1327-1345 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Memory Studies |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 6 |
Early online date | 28 Aug 2023 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 28 Aug 2023 |
Keywords
- Colombia
- craft
- memorial practices
- memorial reparation
- memory
- repair
- reparation
- testimonial textiles