Narrarse desde el género para configurar la memoria: la trayectoria de vida como herramienta investigativa.

The objective of this paper is to reflect on the place of memory in social research based on a doctoral research experience based on the construction of life trajectories of reincorporated members of the farc-ep with a gender perspective. Among the main reflections, it is observed how memory and the narratives that make it up must be studied and approached not from the veracity of their data, but from the meaning, lessons and interpretations that those who produce them wish to transmit. It is also noted that, within the collective or social memory, we find memories of subgroups that make up that community. Some of these subgroups do not have a story or are marginalized from the collective or social memory, as can happen with women and the reincorporated. Life trajectories with a gender perspective allow the construction of a social memory by allowing us to recognize ourselves with the other from the common places and the differences that we have when inhabiting the same territory, which in the Colombian case has been crossed by particular dynamics, the armed conflict. The work stands out because it not only reflects on the place of memory in social research from a de-colonial and feminist perspective, but also provides an example of how it can be carried out within the framework of an investigation. The sources used focused on theoretical and methodological texts on memory and life trajectories, as well as on four life trajectories of reincorporated members of the Ffarc-ep, these trajectories were part of the doctoral research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]