Learning through Collective Memory Work

“Wilson-Vásquez provides context and analysis, addressing such concepts as the ethics of an outsider collecting and publishing testimonials, the importance of the spaces and places where testimonials occur, the silences contained in them, the pedagogical lessons they provide, and the fact/fiction binary.” Choice“This is an utterly astonishing read. Moving in its content. Flowing in its style. And breathtaking in its ambition. You will forever think very differently about the politically difficult questions of memory, testimonials and truth.” Susan L. Robertson, University of Cambridge“Framed by a deep engagement with spatial awareness, Goya Wilson Vásquez walks and talks with the participants in her study, visiting places of their choosing, including prisons and graves. Throughout, she brings her compassion and imagination to this activist research, presenting a moving counter-history.” Molly Andrews, Co-director Association for Narrative Research and Practice

Goya Wilson Vásquez is a researcher affiliated with the University of Bristol. Her work focuses on memory struggles and creative/radical methodologies from Latin America. She examines the dilemmas of writing violence, the intersections between research and activism, and the uses of creativity and imagination in memory work.