identity

Contemporary Ethnicities in the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina

Inge Helena Valencia Peña, Icesi, Colombia

Tags: ethnicity, identity, islander, multiculturalism: pluriethnicity, native, San Andrés Archipelago

From Peasant Settlers to Black Communities, from Guerrilla Regulation to State Regulation

Claudia Quijano Mejía, Universidad Industrial de Santander

Tags: black communities, identity, Peasant

Adaptation, Resistances, and Identity of Penitentiary Officers in Argentina Pavilion-Churches

Mauricio Manchado, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina

Tags: governmentality, identity, jail, religión, resistances

Identity and community building among an Afro-Colombian population in Suba district, Bogotá

Alba Stella Camelo Mayorga, Martha del Socorro Posada Torres, Abelino Andrés Arrieta Sánchez, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca, Colombia

Tags: community, cultural practices, identity

Conflict and identity and a criticism of memory in Colombia

Fabio Silva Vallejo y Angélica Hoyos Guzmán, Universidad del Magdalena, Colombia

Tags: armed conflict, criticism of memory, identity, memory of violence

Rescuing roots: indigenous people, researchers and cultural policies in the construction of provincial identities (La Pampa, Argentina, 1960-1993)

Claudia Salomón Tarquini y Anabela E. Abbona, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, CONICET, Argentina

Tags: cultural policies, identity, región, research

Landscape and Cultural Identity

Gloria Aponte García, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca

Tags: culture, design, identity, Landscape, perception, place

Fashion and Dance in the Rave Wave. On the Concept of Mimesis to Study Juvenile Identities

Leonardo Montenegro Martínez, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca y Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia

Tags: identity, mímesis, rave, urban consumption, youth cultures

Urban Agapes. A Look on the Link between Electronic Musich and Communitas in the city of Bogotá

María Angélica Ospina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia y Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca

Tags: cultural consumption, electronic music (techno), identity, youth cultures

Juvenile Cultures and ‘Gendered Networks’. Towards a New Analytic Approach on Youth Contemporaneity in Colombia

Leonardo Montenegro Martínez, Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca y Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Tags: Gender, identity, subject positions, subjectivity, youth cultures

‘Dancing like a Black Man’. Rythm, Race, and Nation in Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Emily Wamsley, Universidad de Manchester

Tags: dance, embodiment, identity, race, representation

The Anthropology of Tourism in Developing Countries: A Critical Analysis of Tourism Cultures, Powers and Identities

Noel B. Salazar nsalazar@sas.upenn.edu University of Pennsylvania (USA) Abstract: This article reviews anthropologically inspired theories of international tourism in developing countries, analyzing the interrelationships between three core theoretical concepts – culture, power, and identity. The first anthropological attempts at theorizing contemporary tourism were embedded in a framework of political economy and focused on macro-scale inequalities. […]

Tags: Anthropology of tourism, developing countries, identity, theories of tourism

Jorge Isaac’s “Maria” and Its Contribution to the Construction of Subject Identity

Maribel Florian-Buitrago maribelflorianbuitrago@yahoo.es Universidad Colegio Mayor de Cundinamarca Abstract: Given that it was in the 19th century when, confronted with the emergence and consolidation of nationalisms, the formation of national identities became the focus of the most diverse cultural practices, especially literature, we decided to resort to one of the most representative works of Colombian […]

Tags: familiar institution, identity, nationalization process

Two Strange Bedfellows – Of Ideology and Power in Althusser and Foucault

Pablo Francisco Pérez Navarro perez.p@javeriana.edu.co Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia Abstract: In the contemporary cultural and philosophical context, there is a downright devaluation of the notion of ideology, after the abuse carried out by the popularization of the Marxist theory during the sixties and seventies. This paper considers the importance of maintaining alive a certain notion […]

Tags: identity, ideology, interpolation, power, science, subjectivity, truth, work

Identity strains in erotical-affective experiences: a daily scene for gender relations in gold and petroleum extractive contexts

Raquel Méndez Villamizar, Mauricio Rojas Betancur y Leticia Montero Torres, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia

Tags: daily life, gender relations, identity, mining, rurality

The siren chants of political juridical multiculturalism. Cultural identity at the Constitutional Court’s jurisprudence

Oscar Andrés López-Cortés andreslopezc@yahoo.com Universidad del Cauca Abstract: This paper discusses the possibilities and constraints generated by juridical multiculturalism on the Colombian Constitutional Court’s jurisprudence. This analysis draws on a study of that corporation’s jurisprudence on the specific issue of cultural identity. From a theoretical point of view, juridical multiculturalism is analysed in the light […]

Tags: Device, identity, justice, multiculturalism

Passing through Quijano, saving Foucault. Protecting white identities and decolonization

Julia Suárez-Krabbe jskrabbe@ruc.dk juliakrabbe@ces.uc.pt Roskilde Universitet, Dinamarca Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Abstract: This paper addresses the debates linking Quijano’s theories (those of decoloniality) and Foucault’s. On one hand, it reaffirms the importance of those discussions in the Eurocentric academic sphere, and on the other hand, it argues that, in developing primarily within the academic sphere, they […]

Tags: colonial politics of being, coloniality, decolonization, identity, non-being

Physionomy of Decolonial Metaphysics: The Damné, Identity Without a Narrative

Javier Franzé javier.franze@cps.ucm.es Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España Abstract: This paper aims to show the essentialism of Walter Mignolo’s reflection in The Idea of Latin America. One such essentialism does not consist of considering subaltern communities as pure or uncontaminated, nor all of its members (the damné) as endowed with some definite and ahistorical traits, […]

Tags: decolonial, epistemology, essentialism, identity, narration

Political wordings under pressure —Indigenous ethnic mobilization and impolitics in Argentine

Abstract: This paper groups together several reflections and analytical perspectives as a result of my PhD research, inquiring on the articulations between identity, economics and politics. Based on an ethnographic case study —the Huarpes— and the selection of a specific regional context — Mendoza province—, this work is an effort to inquire and analyze the […]

Tags: identity, impolitics, indigenous population, modern politics

Identity utopia in Domingo F. Sarmiento’s Argirópolis

Abstract: This paper explores utopian content in Argirópolis, a novel by Argentinian Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) that was published in 1850. It proposes the union under the form of a Confederation of what used to be known as the Viceroyalty of the Río de La Plata —a territory that now belongs to Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay […]

Tags: Argirópolis, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, identity, Latin American history of thinking, utopía

Feminism, identity and Islam: crossroads, strategies and challenges in a transnational world

Abstract: This paper aims to address the phenomenon of Islamic feminism, by exploring the challenges it faces both in the Islamic community and within international feminism; considering the emerging debates around the “legitimation” of this trend, which has been tagged as an oxymoron by diverse actors. In this line, we wonder if negotiations, strains and […]

Tags: Body, Hijab, identity, Islamic feminism, Quran hermeneutics, recognition, transnationality

Notes on Social Work disciplinary cosmology

Víctor R. Yáñez Pereira, Universidad Autónoma de Chile

Tags: disciplinary cosmology, history, identity, memory, social work