Abstract

LOAIZA, Viviana Ramírez et al. Thirty years after the eruption of the volcano Nevado del Ruiz: memoirs, voices, reparation and participation scenarios. Rev. colomb. soc. [online]. 2017, vol.40, n.1, pp.45-64. ISSN 0120-159X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcs.v40n1.61948.

This research article has two purposes: first, to describe the tendencies and as pects of memory as narrated by the survivors of the 1985 tragedy of the eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz Volcano in Caldas and Tolima; second, to understand how this affects the lives of the persons who presently live in volcanic high risk zones. The meth odological strategy used techniques and instruments employed in the Strengthening Resilience in Volcanic Areas (streya) Project, Colombia, aimed at understanding the social recuperation processes of the community actors who had survived that eruption. The hermeneutic-narrative analysis of data identified narratives as alternatives to know history, reinterpret languages and contexts and indicate different routes to vindicate the past.

Finally, three sections evidence the main narratives found in the analysis, support ed by the theoretical debates proposed by Blair (2005), Almanza (2012) and Narváez, Lavell and Pérez (2009 ): Memoria y victimización, Responsabilidades y zona de alto riesgo, y Afrontamiento y ciudadanía activa (Memory and Victimization, Responsibili ties and High Risk Zones and Coping and Active Citizenry). Although no specific com munity practices arise from the analysis of disaster risk management, some narrated memories seem to unfold as a contribution to the regeneration of social agency in each place. This recognition of the individual and collective environments dignifies the life styles of each inhabitant and leads to comprehension towards each of the inhabitants in high risk areas, with an awareness of the role of being a good neighbor, taking care of the other and oneself.

The articles concludes that the survivors who participated in the investigation showed a tendency towards memory mixed with recollection, pain and confusion, both individually as well as collectively and institutionally. The findings also revealed political participation scenarios that contribute to the strengthening of the strategies for individual coping and the construction of active citizenry that in the case of Villamaría (Caldas) be gin to permeate the lives of the inhabitants of high risk zones.

Keywords : high risk; community; volcanic risk management; narrated memory; nar ratives; socio-cultural practices; victims..

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