Abstract

ALFONSO GIL, María Carolina. Barrancabermeja: following the memory footsteps of the Popular Female Organization. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2012, n.62, pp.75-88. ISSN 0120-3916.

Women have played a very important political role in the memory reconstruction process since they redefine memories, territories and special dates of communities whether supporting people who foster oppression and silence or those people ruled now and then by such practices. In the latter scenario we could find women of the Popular Female Organization from Barrancabermeja City, Middle Magdalena, an organization which was founded in 1972 with a political process characterized by a dispute between the state and several armed players, the motherhood as a political symbol claiming the woman as mother and life-and-Human Rights protector against war. Under these items, politics of the organization memories are analyzed and based on three levels proposed by Elizabeth Jelin: political and cultural level, i.e. "memories as object of disputes, conflicts and fights"; symbolic and personal level, i.e. "memories as subjective processes linked to experiences and material-and-symbolic footprints"; and historical and social level, which studies memory changes of different societies and "rooms for political and ideological fights" (2002, p. 2).

Keywords : Statecraft of memory; woman; celebration; territorial sign; meaning.

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