Listening to the Wounded Sea: Women, Environmental Memory, and Research-Creation in Magdalena

Abstract

This article analyzes how two research-creation processes developed in Magdalena—one literary and the other audiovisual—explore environmental memories of the armed conflict through humanistic practices of listening. Drawing on the project Cartas al Mar and the audiovisual project Women Leaders in Santa Marta: Women’s Political Participation in the Caribbean, 1960–2025, the study examines how women articulate territory, memory, and affectivity. The conceptual framework engages with the notion of territory as a space of life (Escobar 2010) and affective economies (Ahmed 2004). It argues that writing and documentary practices constitute sensitive archives that reconfigure female agency within socio-environmental contexts shaped by conflict.