Memorias encontradas. ¿Qué piensan los estudiantes del conflicto armado?

Abstract

This text puts on the table the memories of the young students of Bogotá and their recognition of the social and political problems that the Colombian armed conflict has unleashed, while highlighting how other explanatory factors regarding its persistence are blurred. It shows the connections between these representations of the past, the frustrations of the present and the despair regarding the future that, sometimes, young people experience as an inescapable condemnation. The author shows us the 'found memories', those that he found and those that are found; those that approach and distance themselves. He reveals to us the 'fights for memory', 'the work of memory', 'the struggles for the past'. He tells us that there is not only one hegemonic memory. He warns us that young people also manifest how social memory frameworks operate by exposing memories that do not escape the social circulation of various memories. He reminds us that memories are never purely individual. He brings to the surface words and images but also silences and omissions.