Memorial entrepreneurs and resistance in the urban margin

In this workshop, we propose to address the connection often observed in the field between ‘resilience' and ‘resistance' and examine how memory can operate as a form of resistance. Drawing on case studies in the United States and Colombia, this paper suggests that certain memorial practices that have emerged from the violence plaguing these neighborhoods can be considered as forms of resistance. The creation of murals, the spontaneous establishment of shrines, or the organization of commemorative ceremonies can contribute to the recuperation of public spaces or participate in challenging hegemonic narratives and representations. Memorial entrepreneurs in the margins of cities, through creative means, such as visual, performative, narrated and bodily remembrance of violence, resist the loss of their territories, counter the descent of victims into collective oblivion and propose alternative visions of violence prevention.