Towards Transcultural Self-Writing : Mapping the Struggles of Minoritised Cultures in Colombia
Abstract
- Abstract
- en More explicitly than in most other countries, the case of Colombia reveals that for members of minoritised groups such as Afrodescendant and indigenous communities, transculturality can be both a mobilising vision of hope and resistance, and a traumatising experience of colonisation and marginalisation. Against this backdrop, our chapter focuses on self-writing as a means of exploring the historical and ethical preconditions for a jointly envisioned transculturality, which are often overlooked in neoliberal discourses of a globalised world. Based on ethnographic experiences and self-writing research from Colombia, we examine how memory, corporality and territoriality constitute avenues of transcultural imagination. We argue that transculturality needs to be rooted in a critical consciousness of historical processes of colonisation, collective trauma and persistently unequal power relations. For peoples of formerly colonised spaces, rewriting the self is a matter of urgency and agency. It is the basis for the (re)negotiation of their existence, interaction and exchange with other cultures.
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People & roles
- Place of publication
- Cham
Origins & context
- Title
- Towards Transcultural Self-Writing : Mapping the Struggles of Minoritised Cultures in Colombia
- Publication type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Book
- A Relational View on Cultural Complexity : Implications for Theory and Practice
- Publisher
- Springer VS
- Series
- Relational Economics and Organization Governance
- Year
- 2023
- Page start
- 173
- Page end
- 189
- Status
- Peer reviewed
Identifiers & sources
- Source ID (eref-/epub-)
- eref-88689
- ISBN
- 978-3-031-27454-1
- Repository URL
- https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/88689/
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