{"id":722,"date":"2021-03-01T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/?p=722"},"modified":"2023-06-22T10:34:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T09:34:38","slug":"peru-a-living-memory-understanding-the-past-shaping-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/2021\/03\/01\/peru-a-living-memory-understanding-the-past-shaping-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Peru a Living Memory: understanding the past shaping the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Lasting more than two decades, Peru experienced a bloody civil war from 1980 in a battle that saw communist revolutionaries and Government armed forces create a legacy of violence and terror, leaving more than 70,000 people dead, most of them poor and indigenous.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='1140' height='672' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fZbYoBzaSAg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/people\/1778\/www.kent.ac.uk\/european-culture-languages\/people\/1778\/sobrevilla-perea-natalia\">Natalia Sobrevilla Perea<\/a>\u2018s work has played a significant role in transforming the public understanding of history through her research on nineteenth-century Peruvian politics, illustrating how knowledge of the past can help the citizens of the present in their search for justice and reparation. This impact has been achieved through engagement with the media (a regular column in\u00a0<em>El Comercio<\/em>), participation in two national independence bicentennial commissions, work with the Museum of Memory in Lima (LUM) helping develop the Centre for Research and Documentation (CDI), and collaboration with the Association of Forcibly Sterilised Women in lobbying the Peruvian and British governments to achieve official recognition.<\/p>\n<p>Sobrevilla Perea, based in the School of European Culture and Languages, traced how the newly created republican State inherited from the Spanish crown the responsibility to look after the surviving dependants of those who fought for Peru. This historical perspective is important because contrary to current notions, it shows that the army was a functioning institution even if it was colonial in origin. Sobrevilla Perea\u2019s co-authored 2019 article in <em>Small Wars<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Insurgencies<\/em>\u00a0further developed this understanding of continuity and institutionalisation within the army by analysing how war was waged in the Andes. One of the principal findings of this research was that although independence brought new political institutions, the colonial legacy was long-lasting and had far-reaching political consequences, with important implications for present-day politics in Peru, particularly with regards to the place in society of Indians and African descendants.<\/p>\n<p>Her research on the importance of history for understanding politics also led her to supervise Ines Ruiz\u2019s doctoral project on the victims of the 1990\u2019s forced sterilization programme (Kent 2019). The research for this project \u2013 which included the recording of the victims\u2019 experiences and an analysis of how it was received \u2013 contributed to a national and international campaign for justice and reparation. This second strand to Sobrevilla Perea\u2019s research on Peruvian politics, and on the importance of history for understanding the present, has led her to help create the Centre for Documentation and Research at the Museum of Memory in Lima.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lasting more than two decades, Peru experienced a bloody civil war from 1980 in a battle that saw communist revolutionaries and Government armed forces create &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/2021\/03\/01\/peru-a-living-memory-understanding-the-past-shaping-the-future\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74795,"featured_media":723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[256079],"tags":[278383,79492,278371],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/kei-case-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}