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Gruber, Valerie V. V. ; Ndi, Gilbert Shang ; Banguero Velasco, Rigoberto:
Towards Transcultural Self-Writing : Mapping the Struggles of Minoritised Cultures in Colombia.
In: Baumann Montecinos, Julika ; Grünfelder, Tobias ; Wieland, Josef
(Hrsg.):
A Relational View on Cultural Complexity : Implications for Theory and Practice. -
Cham
: Springer
,
2023
. - S. 173-189
. - (Relational Economics and Organization Governance
)
ISBN 978-3-031-27454-1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27454-1_9
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Offizieller Projekttitel Projekt-ID Moral Geographies of Re-Existence: Socio-cultural Practices and Visions of a Good Life in Afro-descendant Communities in Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) and Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) EXC 2052/1 – 390713894 |
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Abstract
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.