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Take me to court: Museum-making and transitional justice in Colombia

In: Art and Human Rights

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  • Sof'a N. González-Ayala
  • Cristina Lleras

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In 2020, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), a transitional justice court in Colombia, ordered interim measures for another transitional justice institution to restitute and preserve the contents of an exhibition and the methodology with which it was made in response to the rights of victims of armed conflict. The exhibition opened in 2018, and was the proposed content, narrative and programming of the Museum of Memory of Colombia, created by the Law for Victims and Land Restitution of 2011. In this chapter we explore the background and significance of this 2020 decision in terms of what it can contribute to our understanding of the role of museums and memory in malleable transitional justice and symbolic reparation processes. We discuss the limits and possibilities this malleability affords to facing victims’ and survivors’ demands for truth, justice and reparation, and more broadly to their meaning as social phenomena, even amidst ongoing internal armed conflict.

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  • Sof'a N. González-Ayala & Cristina Lleras, 2023. "Take me to court: Museum-making and transitional justice in Colombia," Chapters, in: Fiana Gantheret & Nolwenn Guibert & Sofia Stolk (ed.), Art and Human Rights, chapter 12, pages 248-265, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:21318_12
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