Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: This article develops a decolonial participatory method to map the geographies of descendants of fugitives from slavery, or Maroons, to disrupt white‐Mestizo constructions of Latin American territories. Maroon‐descendant communities can take advantage of existing archives and their extensive oral history to explain their territorial development from a home‐grown perspective. With the researcher's assistance, members of San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia, used their knowledge and emotions as a lens through which to analyse colonial records to map their territory from both a historical and present day perspective. Feeling/thinking about dispossession and resistance while counter‐using the colonial archive to reclaim Afro‐descendant territory is a subversive undertaking, one that is engrained in the legacy of Maroon resistance.
Source: Area
DOI: 10.1111/area.12869
Author: Ana Laura Zavala Guillen
Institution: Queen Mary University of London
Language: English
Topic: Afro-Latin American Studies
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,760
Funders: British Academy, University of Sheffield
Award: G4980259253
OpenAlex ID: W4366989723