The psychosocial management of rights restitution: Tracing technologies for reparation in post-conflict Colombia

Mora-Gámez, Fredy; Brown, Steven D.

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“…In 2011, Law 1448 grouped IDPs together with other ‘victims of the armed conflict’, entitling both to reparations – including land restitution, housing restitution and the payment of damages – and humanitarian assistance (El Congreso De la República De Colombia, 2011; Summers, 2012: 219; Velez, 2014). A dedicated government agency, the Victim’s Unit, was set up to implement the law in 2012 (Mora-Gámez, 2016: 81). Yet its implementation has been slow, with official statistics in 2014 indicating that only 19.6% of those who had solicited the payment of damages had received this (UARIV, 2014: 15, 25).…”

Section: Ethnographic Context: Internal Displacement In Colombiamentioning

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Displacement, time and resistance: The role of waiting in facilitating occupations led by internally displaced persons in Colombia

Iversen

2021

Time & Society

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This article contributes to the existing literature on the politics of waiting by discussing occupations led by internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Colombia. This literature has emphasised both the power that waiting frequently entails and, increasingly, the agency it can comprise. Yet less has been said about the potential role of waiting in generating resistance. Drawing on a Foucauldian understanding of power as intimately tied to resistance, this article explores how waiting can, in some instances, produce resistance. It uses fieldwork conducted in Bogotá, Colombia, between October 2017 and August 2018, including ethnographic observations and 120 interviews conducted with IDPs and state officials, to explore the centrality of waiting to IDPs’ experiences of displacement in Colombia. Contrary to those who would argue that such waiting encourages passivity, the article draws on a discussion of a two-year-long occupation by IDPs in Bogotá to argue that the long waiting periods facing the occupation’s participants prior to partaking in it were instrumental to facilitating the occupation. Waiting enabled the occupation in two major ways: by bringing together a group of people who would not have met had they not been forced to spend prolonged time together in close quarters and by constituting a key source of frustration motivating the occupation.

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Section: Ethnographic Context: Internal Displacement In Colombiamentioning

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Displacement, time and resistance: The role of waiting in facilitating occupations led by internally displaced persons in Colombia

Iversen

2021

Time & Society

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“…Astrid Erll's notion of ‘travelling memory’ is helpful here, with its focus on ‘the incessant wandering of carriers, media, contents, forms and practices of memory, their continual “travels” and ongoing transformations through time and space, across social, linguistic and political borders’ (2011: 11). Detention with the psychiatric system could indeed be compared, to some extent, with a kind of internal displacement, not least in terms of the kinds of institutional psychosocial management that both groups of persons are likely to encounter (see Mora-Gámez and Brown 2019). But the situation of patients differs from migrants in the key sense that the former does not have the resources and/or support provided by communities of fellow cultural members (e.g., sharing stories of ‘home’, recognition of one's common experiences).…”

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The privatisation of remembering practices in contemporary inpatient mental healthcare: going beyond Agnes's Jacket

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Reavey

2021

Mem. Mind & Media

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In this paper, we consider changes to memorial practices for mental health service users during the asylum period of the mid-nineteenth up to the end of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. The closing of large asylums in the UK has been largely welcomed by professionals and service-users alike, but their closure has led to a decrease in continuous and consistent care for those with enduring mental health challenges. Temporary and time-limited mental health services, largely dedicated to crisis management and risk reduction have failed to enable memory practices outside the therapy room. This is an unusual case of privatised memories being favoured over collective memorial activity. We argue that the collectivisation of service user memories, especially in institutions containing large numbers of long-stay patients, would benefit both staff and patients. The benefit would be in the development of awareness of how service users make sense of their past in relation to their present stay in hospital, how they might connect with others in similar positions and how they may connect with the world and others upon future release. This seems to us central to a project of recovery and yet is rarely practised in any mental health institution in the UK, despite being central to other forms of care provision, such as elderly and children's care services. We offer some suggestions on how collective models of memory in mental health might assist in this project of recovery and create greater visibility between past, present and future imaginings.

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“…relations of domination' (p.157). Technologies are assemblages of humans and things (Latour 2005) that can also enact the social world while transforming the subjective state of affairs of humans (see Brown 2012;Derksen, Vikkelsø, and Beaulieu 2012;Mora-Gámez and Brown 2019). Similarly, Mobile Memorials assemble mobile audiences, pictures, ropes, lampposts, and choreographers.…”

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Beyond citizenship: the material politics of alternative infrastructures

Mora-Gámez

2020

Citizenship Studies

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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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The psychosocial management of rights restitution: Tracing technologies for reparation in post-conflict Colombia

Cited by 12 publications

References 25 publications

Displacement, time and resistance: The role of waiting in facilitating occupations led by internally displaced persons in Colombia

Displacement, time and resistance: The role of waiting in facilitating occupations led by internally displaced persons in Colombia

The privatisation of remembering practices in contemporary inpatient mental healthcare: going beyond Agnes's Jacket

Beyond citizenship: the material politics of alternative infrastructures

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