Learning through Collective Memory Work

Troubling Testimonio in Post-war Peru

Goya Wilson Vásquez author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bristol University Press

Publishing:30th Jan '25

£80.00

This title is due to be published on 30th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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This book traces the process of producing testimonio with the children of Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), an insurgent group during Peru’s internal war (1980-2000). It examines how the group navigates the postwar struggles over memory while dealing with “the children of terrorists” stigma.

Drawing from a cycles of inquiry approach, the book theorises three movements for memory work: a realist presentation of testimonial narratives, a ‘politics of memory’ engaging with the conditions of production, and a ‘poetics of memory’ that troubles memory, voice, and representation for qualitative inquiry in postwar contexts.

Challenging the notion of war-torn countries as pure devastation, the author invites readers to see them as sites of knowledge and creativity with much to offer for education, peace studies, and social justice research.

“This is an utterly astonishing read. Moving in its content. Flowing in its style. And breathtaking in its ambition. You will forever think very differently about the politically difficult questions of memory, testimonials and truth.” Susan L. Robertson, University of Cambridge

ISBN: 9781529237863

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240 pages