Boeykens, Tessa

When times collide: A meta-historical analysis of history and memory in post-conflict Guatemala

2013-2017
promotor: Prof. Berber Bevernage

Boeykens combines her expertise in the domains of history, memory-studies and transitional justice with particular attention for anthropology and ethics. She is especially interested in popular and non-Western approaches to time and historicity, oral history, meta-history and ethnographic fieldwork. Her research focuses on the uses of history, memory and time in post-conflict situations and transitional justice. The doctoral research project she currently works on, explores how indigenous survivors in the Alta Verapaz department remember and give meaning to Guatemala’s violent past in relation to (inter)national transitional justice discourses and practices.

Tessa Boeykens, 2014. Inhumation in Las Ruinas (Chisec, Alta Verapaz)
of the remains of 15 victims that were killed by the military in 1982.

Keywords: Guatemala, Transitional Justice, ethnography, memory, Metahistory, Oral History, Indigenous people, Human Rights, Action Research

Publications:
Willems, Eva, and Tessa Boeykens. 2013. “Herinnering in Naoorlogs Peru En Guatemala: Inzichten Uit Het Veld.”Brood & Rozen 18 (4): 5–21.

Contact: Tessa.Boeykens@UGent.be