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- Arboleda-Ariza, Juan Carlos, et al.
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Absent Peace in Colombia : A Study of Transition Discourses in Former Combatants
- 2020
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In: Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy. - : Walter de Gruyter. - 1079-2457 .- 1554-8597. ; 26:4
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Colombian State and subversive groups have made attempts to build peace by the establishment of accords since the 1980s. Recently, the signature of a peace accord by former president Santos and the FARC-EP leadership in 2016, has come along with changes in the interpretative frameworks of the conflict and the emergence of new institutions, forms of subjectivity and collective meanings around peace. Nowadays, Colombia is in the transition from being a country at war to a peaceful nation. In this transition, the discourse of victims and state representatives about peace and conflict are predominant in the literature. This article characterizes the simultaneously coexisting discourses about peace and conflict in former combatants. We conducted a discourse analysis of 19 semi-structured interviews with former members of paramilitaries and guerrillas. The results are clustered into two categories: absent peace, in which peace is seen as the lack of something that was missed and lost; and the indefinite war, where peace can be hardly imagined due to the permanence of conflict and longevity of violence. The overlooked angle of the narratives of combatants about peace and conflict is discussed, and the findings are suggested as potential guidelines to navigate displaced and divergent accounts of peace and conflict in transition societies.
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- Davies, Sarah, et al.
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Pinboarding the Pandemic: Experiments in Representing Autoethnography
- 2022
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In: Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. - : University of Toronto Libraries - UOTL. - 2380-3312 .- 2380-3312. ; 8:2
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This visual essay draws on an autoethnographic study to present snapshots of mundane academic practice during the pandemic, using these to reflect on care and care practices within academia. Our approach is inspired by a “pinboard” (Law 2007): we use an echo of the two-dimensional space the pinboard offers to present our material through logics of juxtaposition and resonance, rather than attempting to craft a linear argument.
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- Mora Gamez, Fredy, PhD, et al.
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Affecting Infrastructures: Crafting and Weaving as Alternative Repairs
- 2023
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In: Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. - 2380-3312 .- 2380-3312. ; 9:2, s. 1-28
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- As two traditional practices performed by rural communities in Colombia, crafting and weaving can be reframed as ontologies that embody alternative material orders and forms of repair. In this context, we explore two specific initiatives: the Crafted Empathy Chair developed by members of campesinosocial movements in Cauca and Nariño, and Interweaving Material Encounters, a series of collaborative spaces involving women from textile collectives from Chocó, Antioquia, and Bolivar. In the process of exploringthese initiatives, we reflect on the role of nonhumans as technologies that allow our interlocutors to share their affect. In addition to discussing strategies for engaging in affective relations when dealing with the aftermath of war violence, we describe how these arrangements affectus as a part of the audience. Thus, we propose the term affecting infrastructureto conceptualize how crafting and weaving can foster everyday spaces and shared grounds for the emergence of emotional engagements as alternative modes of repair
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- Mora-Gámez, Fredy
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Beyond citizenship: the material politics of alternative infrastructures
- 2020
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In: Citizenship Studies. - : ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. - 1362-1025 .- 1469-3593. ; 24:5, s. 696-711
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper argues for a line of inquiry in the intersection between migration studies and STS work around the notion of material politics in alternative spaces. Drawing on multisited ethnographic inputs, I describe arrangements of cooperation coexisting with post-conflict reparation in Colombia and governmental humanitarianism in Greece. I follow material practices transforming objects into arrangements of remembrance and collective support and address the orders enacted by these practices as alternative infrastructures challenging infrastructures of migration control. The notion of alternative infrastructures offers the possibility to epistemically explore an overlooked angle by citizenship studies and STS; it engages with the objects and relations embedded in the materiality of everyday life and its politics beyond the boundaries of instituted forms of citizenship.
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- Mora Gámez, Fredy
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Beyond citizenship: the material politics of alternative infrastructures
- 2021. - 1
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In: Material Politics of Citizenship: Connecting Migrations with Science and Technology Studies. - London : Taylor and Francis Group. - 9781003201274 ; , s. 696-711
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper argues for a line of inquiry in the intersection between migration studies and STS work around the notion of material politics in alternative spaces. Drawing on multisited ethnographic inputs, I describe arrangements of cooperation coexisting with post-conflict reparation in Colombia and governmental humanitarianism in Greece. I follow material practices transforming objects into arrangements of remembrance and collective support and address the orders enacted by these practices as alternative infrastructures challenging infrastructures of migration control. The notion of alternative infrastructures offers the possibility to epistemically explore an overlooked angle by citizenship studies and STS; it engages with the objects and relations embedded in the materiality of everyday life and its politics beyond the boundaries of instituted forms of citizenship.
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- Mora Gamez, Fredy, PhD
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Curating Reparation and Recrafting Solidarity in Post-Accord Colombia
- 2023. - 1
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In: Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict. - London, United Kingdom : Bristol University Press. - 9781529216059 - 9781529216066 - 9781529216073 ; , s. 258-272
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- Mora Gámez, Fredy
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Infrastructural Repair: Crafting Reparation and Solidarity
- 2022
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In: Ecological Reparation: Repair, Remediation and Resurgence in Social and Environmental Conflict. - London : Bristol University Press. - 9781529216059
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Although in other parts of my work I have stayed with the trouble (Haraway2018) of the cynicism and paradoxical relations assembled in population (migration)management infrastructures, in this chapter I pursue a different line of inquiry. On thisoccasion, I wonder about the worlds exceeding governmental reparation andsolidarity in Colombia. While engaging with protests in the streets of Bogotá, I havecome across material arrangements and experiences which shed light aboutalternative ways developed by my interlocutors to reclaim justice beyond the officialchannels of reparation and solidarity. Thus, I will share my enthusiasm for particularmaterial transformative practices (Naji, 2009) that I have followed while tracing hownon-humans participate in the material politics of alternative repair. Hence, I willdescribe these practices as inter-embodied through the nearness, through the being-with-others, in this case also with humans and non-humans (Ahmed and Stacey,2001; Puig de la Bellacasa, 2011).
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- Mora Gamez, Fredy, PhD, et al.
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Mora-Gámez, Fredy, and Sarah R. Davies. "More-Than-Tech Communities: Alternative Imaginaries Within Hacking and Crafting
- 2023
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In: International Journal of Communication. - 1932-8036. ; 17, s. 4182-4195
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Tech communities are groups that come together to engage with particular technologies. In describing two instances of such communities—hacker- and makerspaces in the United States, and the crafting activities of peasant movements in Colombia—we explore the ways in which their activities exceed their focus on and use of technology and find that practices of hacking and crafting are embedded in imaginaries of attentiveness and care. The use of technology is thus intertwined with the production of particular affects rather than being a goal in itself. We propose the notion of more-than-tech communities as a means of highlighting the ways in which there will, in such communities, always be more at stake than relationships and interactions with technology.
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