ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the connections between youth, memories and violence through an ethnographic account of the cultural practices by which places are rendered meaningful. The close ties and dynamic relationship between place, memory, and imagining speak of the relationship among past, present and future that is embedded in the acts of remembering and forgetting. The chapter outlines social and cultural practices that link city dwellers with their territories and facilitate their circulation through the city despite the violent conflict. Sensing of place is one of the most basic components of human experience, one that greatly informs our relationship with the environment and the landscapes that surround us. The militias arrived in the area after 1993 and, with time, have become very powerful. The sight of two gigantic speakers standing outside a house loudly playing salsa, ballads or disco music is a common one in low-income barrios.
