Thread-ing: Imaginaries for Indigenous and Campesino mobilization in Colombia

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

From the rise of the Indigenous Guard, the National Minga for Education and the recent indigenous and campesino mobilizations in Colombia, this panel intent to give a reading of the symbolic processes taking place along with the social and political transformations the country is facing. By using decolonial, relational, and literary methods the presentations interwoven the complex social and cultural dynamics redefining the role of historically excluded subjects in Colombia at the moment of a possible end of the internal conflict. By their actions they bring into attention the historical marginalization and subjugation of Indigenous and peasant communities in the territory and show alternative ways of being in todays Colombia.

Sub Track

• Afro-Latin/Indigenous Peoples

Chair

• Ivan D Vargas Roncancio, Duke University

Individual Presentations

• Indigenous Guard(s): Decolonial networking and social action - Miguel L Rojas Sotelo, Duke University

• Visiones de cabeza y textualidades otras en una nueva lectura cartográfica De-Colombia - Miguel Rocha, University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill

• Weaving Politics: On connections and free associations in the Indigenous and Campesino movement in Colombia (2010-2014) - Ivan D Vargas Roncancio, Duke University

Discussant

• Diana M Gomez Correal, University of North Carolina