Learning through Collective Memory Work - Troubling Testimonio in Post-war Peru

This book traces the process of producing testimonio with the children of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), an insurgent group during Peru's internal war (1980-2000). It examines how the group navigates post-war struggles over memory while dealing with the 'children of terrorists' stigma.
Drawing on a cycles of inquiry approach, the book theorizes three movements for memory work: a realist presentation of testimonial narratives, a 'politics of memory' engaging with the conditions of production and a 'poetics of memory' that troubles memory, voice and representation for qualitative inquiry in post-war contexts.
Challenging the notion of war-torn countries as pure devastation, the author invites readers to see them as sites of knowledge and creativity, with much to offer for education, peace studies and social justice research.

About the author

Goya Wilson Vásquez is Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol.

Summary

This book traces the process of producing testimonio with the children of Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA). Challenging the notion of war-torn countries as pure devastation, the author invites readers to see them as sites of knowledge and creativity with much to offer for education, peace studies, and social justice research.

Product details

• Authors: Wilson Va&, Goya (The University of Bristol Wilson Va?squez, Goya (The University of Bristol Wilson Vasquez
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2025
• EAN: 9781529237863
• ISBN: 978-1-5292-3786-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 241 mm x 161 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 514 g
• Illustrations: 2 Illustrations, black and white
• Series: Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology