Visibilizing Afro cultural connections and geopolitical dynamics in Nicaragua, Colombia, San Andrés and Providencia

该项目基于在尼加拉瓜、哥伦比亚和英国举行的三场研讨会的主题，这些研讨会是人权委员会研究网络项目的一部分，该项目涉及与联合国非洲人后裔十年相关的机遇和挑战（AH/P006884/1非洲-拉丁裔可见度和联合国十年：尼加拉瓜、哥伦比亚和英国的文化政治运动）。这些活动是同尼加拉瓜的非洲裔非洲经委会和哥伦比亚的Carabantú合作举办的，目的是审查媒体和电影在中美洲-加勒比区域促成非洲裔跨国联系方面的作用。我们已经观察到电影和媒体如何经常动员破坏领土边界的策略，以及视听地理如何提供关键的跨文化空间，非洲后裔可以向不同的选民表达他们的要求，并面对根深蒂固的殖民建筑。哥伦比亚的圣安德雷萨姆斯岛和普罗维登西亚岛是典型的例子，因为它们的地缘政治地位复杂，是哥伦比亚和尼加拉瓜之间的争议领土；他们与尼加拉瓜加勒比海岸的文化、历史和语言联系，以及他们的Raizal非洲人，由于哥伦比亚政府在群岛上的投资，通过大规模旅游和人口流离失所，他们被系统地边缘化，给资源和环境的可持续性带来了额外的压力。这个后续项目，“尼加拉瓜、哥伦比亚、圣安德列斯和普罗维登西亚的非洲文化联系和地缘政治动态可视化”，将圣安德列斯群岛纳入我们现有的网络和研究计划，利用不同的视听策略，旨在将西班牙语和英语加勒比地区的中心化，使语言、领土和文化归属的叙述复杂化，通过广播、电影和网络媒体，将非洲人后裔的个人和集体历史推向前台，以建立跨国非洲/克里奥尔社区。我们的主要目的是通过参与性社区媒体方法记录和传播尼加拉瓜、哥伦比亚和这些岛屿之间的文化、历史和家庭联系，使被地缘政治破坏的非洲后裔的历史联系可见。媒体和电影往往可以使重新认同的战略形象化，助长文化联系的分裂，克服语言、地缘政治和民族障碍。该项目涉及与我们的非洲后裔合作伙伴及其在尼加拉瓜加勒比海岸（比尔维和布鲁菲尔德）、圣安德列斯和普罗维登西亚群岛以及哥伦比亚大陆（波哥大<e:1>和麦德林，这两个地方有来自这些岛屿的相关移民人口）的社区密切合作。我们将利用网络的丰富经验，将我们的研究成果横向传递给各地的非洲人后裔，透过电影、广播和互联网，我们将开发一套创新的文字和视听资源，让非洲人后裔在追求平等和发展的过程中加以利用。因此，这笔资金将使我们和我们在尼加拉瓜和哥伦比亚的合作伙伴能够将网络的好处扩大到更多的用户，并提供一套工具，帮助制定该地区的公共政策和政治倡导倡议。这些产出将明确与争取发展和福祉的斗争联系起来，包括与联合国非洲人后裔十年和可持续发展目标有关的斗争，帮助非洲人后裔克服其在各自民族国家中的文化和政治隐形地位。这个项目还将使我们能够编制一套书面和视听文本，在不久的将来，这些文本将使我们能够制作一部电视连续剧，由哥伦比亚电视工业共同出资，讲述尼加拉瓜、哥伦比亚和圣安德里萨斯群岛之间的黑人历史联系。

This project is based on the main themes that emerged from three workshops in Nicaragua, Colombia and the UK as part of an AHRC research networking project on the opportunities and challenges associated with the UN Decade for People of African Descent (AH/P006884/1 Afro-Latin (in)visibility and the UN Decade:Cultural politics in motion in Nicaragua, Colombia and the UK).These events, held in collaboration with URACCAN in Nicaragua and Carabantú in Colombia, were designed to examine the role of media and film in brokering transnational Afrodescendant connections in the Central America-Caribbean region. We have observed how film and media often mobilise tactics which disrupt territorial borders, and how audiovisual geographies offer crucial intercultural spaces where Afrodescendants can articulate their demands to diverse constituencies and confront entrenched colonial constructions.The case of the Colombian islands of San Andrés and Providencia is exemplary due to their complex geopolitical status, as a disputed territory between Colombia and Nicaragua; their cultural, historical and linguistic connections to the Nicaraguan Caribbean coast, and their Raizal Afro people who have been systematically sidelined by the Colombian state's investments in the archipelago, through mass tourism and displacement of population, putting extra pressure on resources and the sustainability of the environment. This follow-on project, 'Visibilizing Afro Cultural Connections and Geopolitical Dynamics in Nicaragua, Colombia, San Andrés and Providencia', brings the archipelago of San Andrés into our existing network and research programme, capitalizing different audiovisual strategies aiming to de-centre the Hispanophone and Anglophone Caribbean, complicating narratives of linguistic, territorial and cultural belonging, and bringing to the fore individual and collective Afrodescendant histories in order to build transnational Afro/Creole communities through radio, film and online media.Our main aim is to document and disseminate through a participatory community media approach the cultural, historical and familial connections between Nicaragua, Colombia and the islands, making visible Afrodescendant historical connections that have been disrupted by geopolitics.Media and film can often visibilize strategies of re-identification, abetting the fragmentation of cultural ties and overcoming perceived linguistic, geopolitical and national barriers.The project involves working closely with our Afrodescendant partners and their communities on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua (Bilwi and Bluefields), the archipelago of San Andrés and Providencia, and mainland Colombia (Bogotá and Medellin, which have relevant migrant population from the islands). Mobilizing the substantial experience of the Network in order to cascade our research findings horizontally to local Afrodescendant populations, in each of the places, we will develop a set of innovative textual and audiovisual resources via film, radio and internet that Afrodescendants can make use of in their pursuit of equality and development. As such, the funding would enable us and our partners in Nicaragua and Colombia to expand the benefits of the network to larger numbers of users and provide a set of tools that could help shape the development of public policy and political advocacy initiatives in the region. These outputs will connect explicitly to struggles for development and well-being, including those pertaining to the UN Decade for People of African Descent and the SDGs, helping Afrodescendant populations to overcome their cultural and political invisibility in their respective nation-states. This project will also enable us to develop a set of written and audiovisual texts which will, in the near future, allow us to produce a television series, co-funded by the Colombian television industry, about black historical connections between Nicaragua, Colombia and the archipelago of San Andrés.