Stories of obedience and resistance: intergenerational memory of childhoods in Bello Oriente, Medellin

Abstract

This article is the result of the research project “Voices of obedience and resistance: intergenerational narratives of childhood”, and delves into the concern about the silencing, concealment, and ignorance of childhoods as subjects of moral judgment, agency, and resistance. In this sense, it proposes a reading of childhoods from intergenerational memory, with the intention of understanding the transformations in the ways of interpreting obedience and in the actions of resistance to said silencing, as well as the imposition of ways of life and thought. The research was carried out in a rural community in the city of Medellín (Colombia), based on voices and stories from various childhoods, from different generations, who speak of their experiences of being a boy or girl in contexts of precariousness, armed violence, and displacement. forced, as well as their experiences of reterritorialization in which they have been actors, between uprooting and new roots, in the tension between obedience and resistance.