Collective memories of political violence of health-care providers in Ayacucho, Perú

IF 1.8 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Social and Political Psychology Pub Date : 2021-10-26 DOI:10.5964/jspp.7311

R. M. Cueto, A. Espinosa, S. Sandoval, M. A. Pease

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Abstract

The article presents a study about collective memories of the Internal Armed Conflict (IAC) in Peru (1980-2000) from the perspective of a group of health-care professionals providing services in the region that was most affected by political violence. A brief historical analysis of the IAC is presented. A qualitative design with 15 interviews based on Grounded Theory is used for analyzing the discourse of the participants, and accounting for collective memories of the conflict and the scares that the experience and memory of violence have left in the population and the health-care providers. The analysis focuses on four interrelated axes: (1) collective memories of conflict and its social and psychological consequences; (2) costs and benefits of narrating versus the costs of absence of narrating; (3) recovering memories as a way to overcome psychosocial trauma; and (4) direct experience, personal meanings and effects of exposure to victims’ stories on the health-care providers. Results suggest a scenario of unrelenting psychosocial effects and possible re-traumatization, both in those directly affected and, in the health-care professionals treating them. In addition, central to the participants’ discourse is the importance of acknowledging and claiming the right to construct the memory of the violent period as an act of justice, restoration, mental-health recovery, and strengthening of the social fabric.

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阿亚库乔保健提供者关于政治暴力的集体记忆，Perú

本文从一群在受政治暴力影响最严重的地区提供服务的医疗保健专业人员的角度，对1980-2000年秘鲁国内武装冲突的集体记忆进行了研究。对IAC进行了简要的历史分析。基于扎根理论的15次访谈的定性设计用于分析参与者的话语，并解释冲突的集体记忆以及暴力经历和记忆在人群和医疗保健提供者中留下的恐惧。分析集中在四个相互关联的轴上：（1）冲突及其社会和心理后果的集体记忆；（2）叙述的成本和收益与不叙述的成本；（3）恢复记忆，以此克服心理创伤；以及（4）接触受害者故事对医疗保健提供者的直接体验、个人意义和影响。结果表明，无论是在直接受影响的人身上，还是在治疗他们的医护人员身上，都会出现持续的心理社会影响和可能的再次创伤。此外，参与者话语的核心是承认和主张构建暴力时期记忆的权利的重要性，这是一种正义、恢复、心理健康恢复和加强社会结构的行为。

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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2.70

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4.80%

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40 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Social and Political Psychology (JSPP) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal (without author fees), published online. It publishes articles at the intersection of social and political psychology that substantially advance the understanding of social problems, their reduction, and the promotion of social justice. It also welcomes work that focuses on socio-political issues from related fields of psychology (e.g., peace psychology, community psychology, cultural psychology, environmental psychology, media psychology, economic psychology) and encourages submissions with interdisciplinary perspectives. JSPP is comprehensive and integrative in its approach. It publishes high-quality work from different epistemological, methodological, theoretical, and cultural perspectives and from different regions across the globe. It provides a forum for innovation, questioning of assumptions, and controversy and debate. JSPP aims to give creative impetuses for academic scholarship and for applications in education, policymaking, professional practice, and advocacy and social action. It intends to transcend the methodological and meta-theoretical divisions and paradigm clashes that characterize the field of social and political psychology, and to counterbalance the current overreliance on the hypothetico-deductive model of science, quantitative methodology, and individualistic explanations by also publishing work following alternative traditions (e.g., qualitative and mixed-methods research, participatory action research, critical psychology, social representations, narrative, and discursive approaches). Because it is published online, JSPP can avoid a bias against research that requires more space to be presented adequately.