Remembering the Fragmented: War, Memory, and Repair in Colombia (Critical Human Rights)

The South American nation of Colombia has been beset by decades of state, guerrilla, and paramilitary violence, creating deep and long-lasting impacts.Many scholars have investigated not only the atrocious events themselves but also the various truth and memory processes that have sought to address this troubling past.Here, Pilar Riaño-Alcalá takes a new approach by applying Black, Indigenous, and memory studies to two emblematic sites of mass violence: Bahia Portete, a Wayuu Indigenous territory in Upper Guajira; and Bojayá, a Black and Embera Indigenous territory in Chocó.By bringing human and nonhuman actors to bear on the ongoing acts of remembering and by centering Indigenous and Black ontologies, Riaño-Alcalá uncovers how these communities repair themselves-how they understand, restore, sustain, and reimagine themselves despite the constant uncertainties of war and racial capitalism.Contributing to human rights studies, memory studies, Indigenous studies, Latin American studies,