Abstract

BOLIVAR, Ingrid Johanna  and  FLOREZ, Alberto. La investigación sobre la violencia: categorías, preguntas y tipo de conocimiento. rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2004, n.17, pp.32-41. ISSN 0123-885X.

The article presents a contrast between the results of the project entitled "Supporting the functioning and consolidation of the Colombian consortium of research on conflict, violence, and cohabitation" and the main ideas of a book by renowned foreign researchers in which the connections between violence and subjectivity are stressed. The author focuses on categories, methods, and questions that, in spite of the fact of deriving from violent experiences in other countries, have a particular importance in the Colombian case, in terms of a general re-stating of both significance and sense of violence. The article proposes relationships between violence and different topics such as the role of the media in the possibility of cultural control, the various memories and narratives that condition the present and explain the past, and the construction of identities starting from feelings such as hate and revenge. In order to face complex phenomena such as excessive violence, the article goes as far as proposing mediations between the act of killing and the aesthetic impact produced by images presented both in televised and printed news. It also claims for a greater interest in the role of the researcher interested in violence, his/her sources, and his role as producer of knowledge and, therefore, of sense and of formal representations.

Keywords : Violence; subjectivity; Colombia; knowledge; methods.

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