Boys and girls in times of war: resistance strategies
This article discusses how, despite the violence that affects the body of children living amidst the Colombian armed conflict, they count on some forms of resistance to violence in order to protect their everyday life. To this end, they rely on strategies such as space reconfiguration, games, an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad del Valle
2015-10-01
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| Series: | Prospectiva |
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| Online Access: | http://revistaprospectiva.univalle.edu.co/index.php/prospectiva/%20article%20/view%20/935 |
| Summary: | This article discusses how, despite the violence that affects the body of children living amidst the Colombian armed conflict, they count on some forms of resistance to violence in order to protect their everyday life. To this end, they rely on strategies such as space reconfiguration, games, and laughter, which allow their bodies to assume a new role, draw attention to anomalies, and introduce adjustments to reality, or just to build a parallel world and to forget reality even if it is for a short period of time, in order to face the painful game played by adults when they “play at war”.
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| ISSN: | 0122-1213 2389-993X |