Guerra en carne y hueso: concepción de la corporalidad mutilada en ex combatientes de las FARC y de ex militares de la fuerza pública colombiana

Abstract

The Colombian armed conflict is a complex long-standing process. Their analysis implies the consideration of different historical, political, social, geographical, economic and cultural aspects. In this context it is vital to review the role that the human body plays as a scenario, witness and evidence of this conflict, since bodies are the first stage of human experience; they symbolize the violent act in themselves and towards others. In many ways they are marked in their matter as scars, but also altered in their subjective environment. This is how the construction of this document is part of the concern for that body immersed in war as a victim and victimizer; a symbolic body as corporality, which goes beyond materiality, which is violently annihilated, shattered and mutilated; a body that is built from language and its social experience. As part of the objective and commitment of Education for Peace, the academic and social product of the Havana process, it is vital to look back at the testimonies of those who lived in armed flesh. In this case, members of the guerrillas of the FARC and the Military Forces, as armed armies in dispute since the illegality-legality in Colombian political history.