Incommensurable worlds, irreparable wounds: Transitional justice politics and personal violent pasts in postconflict Peru

María Eugenia Ulfe, Ximena Málaga Sabogal

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Abstract

Reparation programmes in transitional justice processes imply that there are ways to repair social bonds, to dignify victims of violence, to reconstitute what is lost. But how does losing a relative translate into the twists and turns of a state social programme? Based on ethnographic research in the Peruvian Andes and the life history of a daughter of a Shining Path leader, this article explores the ways in which transitional justice discourses get translated into specific national reparation policies embedded in a series of mnemonic wars. These mnemonic wars imply different levels of confrontation, and invisibilization of subjects and citizenships.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1484-1496
Number of pages13
JournalMemory Studies
Volume15
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2022

Keywords

  • Andes
  • Peru
  • postconflict
  • reparations
  • transitional justice
  • victimhood

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