Law Made Stitch by Stitch: The Experience of the Weavers’ Sewing Club fot The Memory of Sonson

Abstract

The construction of memory implies bringing into play scenarios, actors, devices, and bets that along the process lead to new social relationships, subjective transformations, and the reconstruction of experiences in contexts of suffering. The Costurero Tejedoras por la Memoria de Sonsón (sort of a weavers’ sewing club for memory) is one of those places where multiple senses of memory, victims’ rights, and in general processes of transitional justice are managed. This article analyzes the right to memory from the senses and the constructions that these sewing women, from the Asociación de Víctimas por la Paz y la Esperanza, in Sonsón, Antioquia, give to the memories, as part of their struggle for truth, justice, and reparation with assurances of non-repetition as fundamental rights of victims which should be guaranteed in the transitional justice process.