Dwellers of Memory is an ethnographic study of how urban youth
in Colombia came to be at the intersection of multiple forms of
political, drug-related, and territorial violence in a country
undergoing forty years of internal armed conflict. It examines the
ways in which youth in the city of Medellin reconfigure their lives
and, cultural worlds in the face of widespread violence. This
violence has transgressed familiar boundaries and destroyed basic
social supports and networks of trust. This volume attempts to map
and understand its patterns and flows.
The author explores how Medellin's youth locate themselves and
make, sense of violence through contradictory and shifting memory
practices. The violence has not completely taken over their
cultural worlds or their subjectivities. Practices of remembering
and forgetting are key methods by which these youth rework their
identities and make sense of the impact of violence on their lives.
While the experience of violence is rooted in urban space and urban
youth, the memory dwellers use a sense of place, oral histories of
death, and narratives of fear as survival strategies for inhabiting
violent neighborhoods. The book also examines fissures in memory,
the contradictory constructions of young people's subjective
selves, and practices of gendered violence and terror. All have and
continue to pose risks to the historical memory and cultural
survival of the residents of Medellin.
Dwellers of Memory offers an alternative ethnographic approach
to the study of memory and violence, one that calls into question
whether the, role of the ethnographer of violence is to be a mere
witness of terror, or to oppose it by writing against it. It will
be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, and students of,
ethnography.
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