Coloquio: Economic Reparations, Entrepreneurship, and Post-Conflict

Fecha: Viernes, 15 de Marzo de 2019 a las 12:00 PM hasta las 2:00 PM

Lugar y dirección: Universidad de Los Andes - Salón por confirmar. Edificio Roberto Franco, Carrera 1, Bogotá, Colombia

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Discussions about the role of reparations in helping societies recover from civil conflict are divided between those who believe that reparations should focus on rights recognition and those who think reparations have the potential to foster economic development. This debate is particularly salient in Colombia, where the scale and duration of civil conflict resulted in a large number of victims to be repaired.  I argue that the Colombian government treats reparations—that is, cash payments to victims of human rights violations -as seed money that, if properly tended, will grow into a reconstructed life for the victim. Using interviews, ethnographic observations and textual data, I argue that: 1) those in charge of implementing the reparation policy followed the script of micro-finance development interventions; 2) this policy aims to create a new post-conflict subjectivity that I name the “responsible victim”; and, 3) beneficiaries perform the “responsible victim” in ambivalent ways, embracing the narrative of self-reliant citizens while also requesting more attention and aid from the state. In so doing, I highlight how the use of reparations as development shifts the focus from acknowledging past-wrongdoings to an emphasis on a prosperous post-conflict economic future.