Memory Workshops in Colombia

This chapter introduces memory workshops as a creative and participatory methodology for studying memory in violent and transitional contexts. Based on fieldwork with campesino communities in Colombia's Cesar region, it shows how tools such as timelines, emotion biographies, and memory webs enable knowledge co-creation through collective, multisensory engagement. The approach foregrounds process and participation, generating plural and contested narratives that challenge official transitional justice accounts. By centring community authorship and embracing ambiguity, memory workshops contribute to both memory studies and the study of civilian agency through a contextually grounded and inclusive research practice.