(Un)Stitching the Subjects of Colombia's Reconciliation Process

本项目探讨了前战斗人员在哥伦比亚解除武装、复员和重返社会（DDR）过程中所建构的主体性，以及这些前战斗人员如何反过来被社会上的其他群体，特别是他们现在定居的社区所看待。为了研究前战斗人员的自我理解和局外人对这些的看法的转变，该项目采用了一种定性的方法，将叙事传记采访与纺织品叙事相结合。这种创新的方法包括经营纺织车间，在车间里，首先是前战斗人员，然后是平民社区代表，单独或集体地制作缝制的壁挂，以表达他们的记忆、自我理解和对未来的希望。在这种方法中，口头叙述和纺织品叙述不仅是为分析前战斗人员在哥伦比亚和解与社会融合进程中的作用提供资料，而且作为一种方法干预战略，旨在积极促进这一进程。这一方法学战略的另一个关键组成部分是其传播研究成果的多种手段。调查结果不仅通过纺织工作坊传播，还通过地方、国家和国际层面的展览以及数字平台传播。作为一个存储库和传播工具，该平台计划在未来扩展到收集其他地点制作的哥伦比亚冲突的口头和纺织品叙述。

This project explores the subjectivities constructed by ex-combatants in the process of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) in Colombia and how these ex-combatants are, in turn, perceived by other groups in society and specifically in the communities where they now settle. In order to study the transformation of both ex-combatants' self-understandings and outsider perceptions of these, the project employs a qualitative approach that combines narrative biographical interviews with textile narratives. This innovative method consists in the running of textile workshops during which first ex-combatants and then civilian community representatives, individually or collectively, create sewn wall-hangings to express their memories, self-understandings, and hopes for the future. In this approach, oral and textile narratives are not merely data to inform the analysis of ex-combatants' role in the process of reconciliation and social integration in Colombia, but, as a methodological intervention strategy, are intended to actively contribute to this process. A further key component of this methodological strategy are its diverse means for the dissemination of research results. Findings are disseminated not only through the textile workshops, but also through exhibitions at the local, national, and international level and through a digital platform. As a repository and dissemination tool, this platform is planned to be expanded to collect oral and textile narratives of the Colombian conflict produced in other sites in the future.