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Title	Memory Traces of Ethnic and Gender Violence in Columbia’s Armed Conflict
Creator	Riaño‐Alcala, Pilar
Contributor	University of British Columbia. Centre for Women's and Gender Studies
Date Issued	2010-11-20
Description	Women are untouchable according to the customary laws of the Wayuu indigenous peoples of the Guajira region in Colombia. The massacre of six Wayuu, four of them women, and the forced displacement of the entire community from their ancestral territory in April of 2004 radically dislocated these principles and the sense of the everyday life in a warrior society that have resisted military, religious or educational occupations of their land since colonial times. In this presentation, I examine the living memories of this massacre, the forms of sexual violence exercised and, the resistance strategies and memory and memorialisation work led mostly by Wayuu women. The aim is to discuss the ethnic and gender dimensions of armed conflicts and the relevance of exploring variations in sexual, ethnic and regional violence as observed in the Colombian case.
Subject	Wayuu Columbia Guajira Women's and Gender Studies
Type	Sound
Language	eng
Notes	The Centre for Women’s and Gender Studies (CWGS) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) offered a weekly lecture series for the fall and winter semesters. This series brought together scholars that focussed on issues related to women and the study of gender/sexuality. The series included post doctoral and visiting scholars, faculty both from CWGS and additional departments engaged in research relevant to the mission of the centre.
Series	Centre for Women's and Gender Studies (CWGS) Lecture Series
Date Available	2010-11-10
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported
DOI	10.14288/1.0052303
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29920
Affiliation	Women's and Gender Studies, Centre for
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Faculty
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
AggregatedSourceRepository	DSpace

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Centre for Women’’s and Gender Studies, UBC Fall 2010 Public Lecture Series  Wednesday, October 20th, 2010. 12:00 –– 1:00 pm  At the Centre for Women's and Gender Studies 2080 West Mall (028)  lower level,Jack Bell Building  ““Please note new location of Lecture Series””  Everyonewelcome  PilarRiañoͲAlcalá,AssociateProfessorofSocialWorkandFamilyStudies,UBC Memory Traces of Ethnic and Gender Violence in Columbia’s Armed Conflict  Women are untouchable according to the customary laws of the Wayuu indigenouspeoplesoftheGuajiraregioninColombia.ThemassacreofsixWayuu, fourofthemwomen,andtheforceddisplacementoftheentirecommunityfrom theirancestralterritory inAprilof2004 radicallydislocatedtheseprinciplesand the sense of the everyday life in awarrior society that have resistedmilitary, religious or educational occupations of their land since colonial times. In this presentation,Iexaminethelivingmemoriesofthismassacre,theformsofsexual violence exercised and, the resistance strategies and memory and memorialisationwork ledmostly byWayuuwomen. The aim is to discuss the ethnicandgenderdimensionsofarmedconflictsandtherelevanceofexploring variations in sexual,ethnicand regional violenceasobserved in theColombian case.  PilarRiañoͲAlcalá,PhDinAnthropologyfromUBC(2000)isanassociateprofessoratthe Schoolof SocialWork and Faculty Fellow inResidence at the Liu Institute forGlobal Issues.Her research interests include the lived experience of violence, displacement andexile,thepoliticsandpracticesofmemoryinsocietiesdividedbyarmedconflictand local strategies of social reconstruction and repair.Herwork focusesmainly in Latin America.Interested intheexerciseofpublicpedagogyandthepracticeofresearchas collaborative process of knowledge construction, professor Riaño also explores the development of conceptual and methodological approaches for participatory and community based research. Pilar is currently collaborating with the Colombian CommissionofHistoricalMemory.

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