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Collective trauma in Indigenous and Black territories on Colombia's Pacific coast: a framework and collaborative approach to researching violence
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Using collaborative research methods with local organisations, this study analyses collective trauma in Colombia's Pacific coast. It examines ethnoterritorial groups, or collectivities whose identities and political organising reflect a distinct territorial consciousness characterised by intercultural, environmental and socio-economic relationships to land. 'Peer interviewers' adapted research instruments and ethics to their communities, highlighting oral testimonies and the collective construction of knowledge. They connected emotionally and intellectually with their people revealing key information about harmful events undermining the life-worlds of their communities. Building on this work, the article breaks the trauma process into different phases starting with traumatogenic events that cause communal distress and produce a social and signification crisis. It claims that territories represent a form of knowledge and produce feedback effects in the trauma process that help people connect emotionally and strategically with place. The article concludes that harmful events are not the same as collective trauma. Collective trauma is constructed in a process of signification that uncovers and interprets a negative collective impact and delimits the group of sufferers.
collective traumaindigenous groupsAfro-descendant groupsethnoterritorial identitiesterritory and trauma
Marcela Velasco
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Department of Political Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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