ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates practices of truth that take place in coalitional models of political subjectivity with respect to the task of political space making. It focuses specifically on mothers’ movements in Turkey and Argentina (Cumartesi Anneleri and Las Madres de Plaza De Mayo), movements that are formed on claims to truth with respect to enforced disappearances: in the absence of archival records, mothers’ movements are formed on the basis of establishing truth through long-durational coalitional activisms in public spaces, through regularly coming together ‘for truth’ by creating contested political spaces. The main aim of the chapter is to take the mothers’ movements seriously in the account of their actions and thus investigate their common interest in reinventing political spaces through coalitional practices of truth. What does it mean to create truth together? How does one invent truth, and how does one do so in relation and in coalition with others? What kind of an invention is at stake in such truth? How are spaces, specifically, political spaces born in relation to practices of truth?
