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- Title
L'ESCOMBRERA DE MEDELLIN: UNE FOSSE COMMUNE ENTRE RECONNAISSANCE ET OUBLI.
- Authors
NAEF, Patrick
- Abstract
The main objective of this article is to look at the issue of "forced disappearances" in Colombia, by focusing on an industrial waste dump located in the outskirts of Medellin and transformed over the last two decades into a mass grave. By documenting some events associated with this informal graveyard, called the "escombrera", I intend to observe how memorial practices - artistic performances and commemorations - provide a way for victims and their relatives to reconstruct their ties with a territory from which they have been partially or entirely excluded, either by reclaiming it physically-through the organization of performances in the surroundings of the site - or symbolically - by an acknowledgment of the events that have traumatized this area of the city. The "escombrera" is at the centre of claims by several victims' groups, who for the last 15 years have been denouncing the fact that almost 300 disappeared persons are buried there, making this site one of the largest mass graves in Colombia.
- Publication
Géographie & Cultures, 2018, Issue 105, p113
- ISSN
1165-0354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4000/gc.6583