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Afro-Latin (in)visibility and the UN Decade: Cultural politics in motion in Nicaragua, Colombia and the UK

非洲裔拉丁人的可见性和联合国十年：尼加拉瓜、哥伦比亚和英国的文化政治运动

基本信息

批准号：
AH/P006884/1
负责人：
Julie Cupples
金额：
$ 4.5万
依托单位：
University of Edinburgh
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FP006884%2F1
关键词：
Afro Latin visibility UN Decade

项目摘要

Efforts to build transnational dialogues among Afro-descendant scholars, activists and artists across Latin America are often thwarted by a chronic lack of funding, pressing national challenges to their well-being, and the range of different languages practised by these social actors (including Creole English, Garifuna, Spanish, Portuguese, Palenquero, and indigenous languages such as Miskitu). Yet, while the field of Afro-Latin Studies has historically concentrated on experiences of Afro-descendants in the discrete national contexts of Brazil, Colombia and Cuba, there is a growing engagement with connected narratives of mobilisation and discrimination across national borders. The UN International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-24) presents a germane and explicitly transnational platform through which grassroots organisations, activists, artists and scholars can visibilise their demands and contrast their approaches, contingent as they are on relational concepts of race, class and gender. The proposed Network aims to harness the international reach of the UN Decade in order to facilitate discussions among Central American, Colombian, Cuban and British peers, and open up new avenues of collaboration. At the core of the Network is a concern for the limiting ways in which monolingual scholarship 'provincialises' solidarity strategies and a commitment to interrogating the fertile terrain of Afro-descendant cultural production as a means to transcend national and linguistic borders.Within Latin America, Afro-descendants in Colombia and Cuba (along with Brazil) occupy quite distinct symbolic and cultural spaces within their national polities. The experience and presence of Central Americans of African descent is often eclipsed in the region, however, generating a particular sense of urgency among these communities, who feel that their collective survival as a people is under threat. Despite the significance of their cultural and economic contributions to the nations of Central America since the colonial era, they are enmeshed in colonial state and international politics which continually invisibilise and marginalise their presence. Furthermore, Afro-Central Americans must confront persistent discrimination and racism. Their struggles for dignity, human rights, cultural citizenship and well-being are compromised by two realities that Afro-descendant Central Americans are forced to negotiate, which operate in different ways and to varied degrees across Latin America. The first is the effect of particularly virulent imperializing discourses of mestizaje that emphasise European and Indigenous contributions to heritage while erasing Black ones. The second is a resurgent indigeneity that has succeeded in gaining global and national forms of political redress, such as collective land titles and state support for Indigenous languages, which, in the case of Central America, are not extended to Afro-descendant populations.Working closely with our partners at the University of the Autonomous Regions of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua (URACCAN), our Network seeks to organize a series of events in which this state of affairs can be directly tackled. In particular, we seek to put Afro-Central Americans into dialogue with Afro-Cubans and Afro-Colombians as well as with members and scholars of the Black Caribbean diaspora living and working in the UK, addressing how these different constituencies negotiate distinct symbolic and cultural spaces within their respective societies. Our proposed workshops and associated cultural activities aim to create productive and interactive forms of knowledge exchange between Afro-descendant scholars, artists, broadcasters and civil society activists in ways that will directly enhance the cultural and political visibility and understanding of Afro-descendant culture and political demands in Latin America and exchange strategies for action and intervention of mutual benefit to all participants.

在拉丁美洲各地的非洲裔学者、活动家和艺术家之间建立跨国对话的努力常常受阻，原因包括长期缺乏资金、对他们的福祉构成紧迫的国家挑战以及这些社会行为者使用各种不同的语言(包括克里奥尔英语、加里富纳语、西班牙语、葡萄牙语、帕伦奎罗语和米斯基图语等土著语言)。然而，尽管非洲-拉丁研究领域历来专注于非洲裔人在巴西、哥伦比亚和古巴这三个不同国家背景下的经历，但人们越来越多地参与到关于跨国界动员和歧视的相互关联的叙述中。联合国非洲裔人国际十年(2015-24)提供了一个密切相关的明确跨国平台，通过这个平台，草根组织、活动人士、艺术家和学者可以看到他们的要求，对比他们的方法，视他们对种族、阶级和性别等相关概念的看法而定。拟议的网络旨在利用联合国十年的国际影响，以促进中美洲、哥伦比亚、古巴和英国同行之间的讨论，并开辟新的合作途径。该网络的核心是对单一语言奖学金使团结战略“地方化”的有限方式的关注，以及对非洲裔文化生产肥沃地带的质疑，以此作为超越国家和语言边界的一种手段。在拉丁美洲，哥伦比亚和古巴(以及巴西)的非洲裔在其国家政治中占据着相当独特的象征和文化空间。然而，非洲裔中美洲人的经历和存在在该区域往往黯然失色，在这些社区中产生了一种特别的紧迫感，他们感到自己作为一个民族的集体生存受到威胁。尽管他们自殖民时代以来为中美洲国家作出了重要的文化和经济贡献，但他们陷入了殖民国家和国际政治的泥潭，不断地使他们的存在看不见并被边缘化。此外，非裔中美洲人必须面对持续存在的歧视和种族主义。他们为尊严、人权、文化公民权和福祉而进行的斗争，受到了非洲裔中美洲人被迫谈判的两个现实的损害，这两个现实在整个拉丁美洲以不同的方式和不同的程度运作。首先是特别恶毒的混血儿帝国主义言论的影响，这些言论强调欧洲和土著对遗产的贡献，同时抹去黑人的贡献。第二种是复兴的土著，它成功地获得了全球和国家形式的政治补救，例如集体土地所有权和国家对土著语言的支持，就中美洲而言，这并没有扩展到非洲人后裔人口。我们的网络与我们在尼加拉瓜加勒比海沿岸自治区大学的伙伴密切合作，力求组织一系列活动，在这些活动中可以直接解决这种情况。特别是，我们寻求让非裔中美洲人与非洲裔古巴人和非洲裔哥伦比亚人以及在英国生活和工作的散居海外的加勒比黑人成员和学者进行对话，讨论这些不同的选民如何在各自的社会中谈判不同的象征性和文化空间。我们拟议的讲习班和相关文化活动的目的是在非洲裔学者、艺术家、广播员和民间社会活动家之间创造富有成效和互动的知识交流形式，以直接提高对拉丁美洲非洲裔文化和政治需求的文化和政治能见度和了解，并交流行动和干预战略，使所有参与者受益。