Moral Geographies of Re-Existence - Projects of the Cluster
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Our research project sheds light on the ways in which Afro-descendant communities resist and re-exist in postcolonial and post-slavery Latin America. We focus on Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) and Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), two major arrival ports of the transatlantic slave trade. These traumatic places of enslavement and colonization are still marked by racial discrimination and socio-spatial exclusion. At the same time, their colonial city centres are recognised as UNESCO World Heritage, attracting thousands of tourists every year. In this ambivalent context, we focus on peri-urban neighbourhoods which tend to be ‘off the map’ of many tourists, researchers and political actors. In the face of violence and poverty, their dwellers are often stigmatised across-the-board as if they were morally inferior and incapable of fostering a peaceful social transformation. In contrast, we assume that their self-organised socio-cultural projects may not only (re)valorise Afro-descendant identities and life-worlds, but also change people’s strong evaluations of what is right and good, altering their visions of a good life.
Presented by Prof. Dr. Rothfuß
#geography #brazil #philosophy #postcolonialism #moralities #unibayreuth #universityofbayreuth
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- Rothfuß, Eberhard
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- Moral Geographies of Re-Existence - Projects of the Cluster
- Language
- English
- YouTube playlist
- Presenting The Cluster Projects
- Date
- April 27, 2022
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- [Music] hello my name is i'm a social geographer at the geographic institute at the university of byroid and i'm a member of the research section moralities the project is called moral geographies of re-existence day life practices and the good life in two afro-descendant neighborhoods in savador bahia brazil and cartagena de indias colombia and this project started in december to 19 and will last for four years our project deals with the urban life of two marginalized neighborhoods of afro-descendant communities one in sabara bahia the quarter is called uruguay and the other quarter is called barrio chino in cartagena india and therefore we are interested in understanding how former slaves who live there kind of precarious marginalized life in these neighborhoods of two very unequal societies brazil and colombia how these african communities live their lives what kind of moral topographies they develop through inequalities who they are forced through racism marginalization and exclusion uh the topic is therefore quite interesting as we have the cluster of excellence african multiple and uh this topic deals with the multiple africa and this is africa the african diaspora in south america and therefore this uh shows the multiplicity of african life worlds not just on the continent but in the diaspora and about 200 million uh people in south america are of african origin and therefore it's a very important societal aspect at least in countries where population is quite numerous like brazil and colombia in this project we want to understand local life worlds how the people perceive inequalities how they are forced in these unequal lives and therefore we try to understand harmoniously the local people and that means we work ethnographically with the documentary methods reconstructing the meaning of the practices of the people of the intentions in their lives and we want to integrate participatory action research to integrate a shared understanding of knowledge… Read the full text about 1,022 words
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