Schedule 72. StuTS

In this poster presentation, I will briefly address a qualitative investigation or learning process that took place this year in Bogotá with the Cabildo Wounaan-Nonám. I will talk briefly about my theoretical starting point (Colonialidad/Modernidad), methodological considerations as well as methods and tentative results: Coloniality is reproduced and produced by members of the Cabildo, but it also is a place of decolonial resistance.

Following Maldonado-Torres (2007: 243) "as modern subjects we breathe coloniality all the time and every day." Coloniality refers to a power matrix that developed from power structures installed in colonial times to regulate the relationship between colonized and colonizers and still does so today (Quijano 1992, 2007). Coloniality regulates different levels of social reality such as knowledge, gender, frontiers, aesthetics, power and language. Through this thesis, I describe how coloniality influences the Wounaan's (linguistic) life in Bogotá and how they created a decolonial space of resistance for themselves. I try to work decolonially by basing myself on indigenous methodologies (such as Smith 2012, Wilson 2001), and by using indigenous as well as occidental methods together. At the same time, occidental methods are questioned and reworked. Learning moments took place in Círculos de Palabras that were recorded and by means of participative observation/learning at the Casa de Pensamiento Wounaan and teamwork with a group of women which resulted in protocols. As an analysis method, I use the Discourse Historic Approach because both DHA and Coloniality research pay attention to context and historic aspects. The analysis should function as a point of departure for critique that should help to better the Cabildo's life if they wish so.

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Day: 2022-11-04
Start time: 15:30
Duration: 00:15
Room: Only online
Track: Sociolinguistics
Language: en

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