Publicación: Ignacio Torres Giraldo as historian of the Colombian labor movement
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En este artículo buscamos revindicar a Ignacio Torres Giraldo (en adelante ITG) como historiador, para lo cual nos proponemosresponder las siguientes preguntas: ¿cómo se conjuga memoria e historia en los escritos de movimiento obrero de ITG? y ¿qué teoría y metodología media en su ejercicio de historiador? En este propósito nos hemos contrapuesto a los que lo han pretendido reducir a escritura subjetivista, militante y testimonial. Para cumplir con este propósito nos acogimos a la metodología de la descripción articulada, que consistió en una revisión documental primaria y secundaria referida a la biografía de ITG, la historia del movimiento obrero de las décadas de 1920 y 1940, así como la selección de una bibliografía relevante para los temas abordados por La cuestión sindical en Colombia y los tres últimos tomos de Los inconformes, de donde identificamos conceptos, acontecimientos y tesis relevantes del autor, y los fuimos entretejiendo hasta constituir la configuración de un historiador. Concluimos que la memoria entrecruzada con una teoría y metodología, por más discutidas que estas sean, conjugadas con disciplina de análisis y escritura, pueden producir una obra de valor para la historia de un país y en especial de un movimiento social.
In this article we seeked to vindicate Ignacio Torres Giraldo (hereinafter ITG) as a historian, for which we proposed to answer thefollowing questions: how does memory and history come together in ITG’s writings on the workers’ movement, and what theory and methodology does he use in his work as a historian? With this purpose we have opposed those who have tried to reduce it to subjectivist, militant and testimonial writing. To fulfill this purpose we used the methodology of articulated description, which consisted of a primary and secondary documentary review of ITG’s biography, the history of the labor movement of the 1920s and 1940s, as well as the selection of a bibliography relevant to the topics addressed by La cuestión sindical en Colombia and the last three volumes of Los inconformes, from which we identified concepts, events and relevant theses of the author, and we interweaved them to constitute the configuration of a historian. We concluded that memory intertwined with a theory and methodology, though disputed, combined with the discipline of analysis and writing, can produce a work of value for the history of a country and especially for a social movement.
In this article we seeked to vindicate Ignacio Torres Giraldo (hereinafter ITG) as a historian, for which we proposed to answer thefollowing questions: how does memory and history come together in ITG’s writings on the workers’ movement, and what theory and methodology does he use in his work as a historian? With this purpose we have opposed those who have tried to reduce it to subjectivist, militant and testimonial writing. To fulfill this purpose we used the methodology of articulated description, which consisted of a primary and secondary documentary review of ITG’s biography, the history of the labor movement of the 1920s and 1940s, as well as the selection of a bibliography relevant to the topics addressed by La cuestión sindical en Colombia and the last three volumes of Los inconformes, from which we identified concepts, events and relevant theses of the author, and we interweaved them to constitute the configuration of a historian. We concluded that memory intertwined with a theory and methodology, though disputed, combined with the discipline of analysis and writing, can produce a work of value for the history of a country and especially for a social movement.