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

该项目基于在尼加拉瓜、哥伦比亚和英国举办的三个讲习班所产生的主题，这些讲习班是AHRC关于联合国非洲裔人十年(AH/P006884/1非洲裔人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)相关机遇和挑战的研究网络项目的一部分。这些活动是与尼加拉瓜和哥伦比亚卡拉班托联合国儿童基金会合作举办的，旨在探讨媒体和电影在促成中美洲-加勒比地区跨国非洲裔人联系方面的作用。我们观察到电影和媒体如何经常调动扰乱领土边界的策略，以及视听地理如何提供关键的跨文化空间，在那里非洲裔人可以向不同的选民表达他们的要求，并对抗根深蒂固的殖民建设。哥伦比亚的圣安德烈·S和普罗维登西亚群岛的例子是例证，因为它们作为哥伦比亚和尼加拉瓜之间的一个有争议的领土，具有复杂的地缘政治地位；它们与尼加拉瓜加勒比海岸的文化、历史和语言联系，以及其Raizal Afro人，通过大规模旅游和人口流离失所，他们一直被哥伦比亚政府在群岛的投资系统地排挤在外，给资源和环境的可持续性带来额外的压力。这一后续项目“展现尼加拉瓜、哥伦比亚、圣安德烈·S和普罗维登西亚的非洲文化联系和地缘政治动态”，将圣安德烈·S群岛纳入我们现有的网络和研究方案，利用不同的视听战略，旨在使讲西班牙语和讲英语的加勒比人的中心去中心化，使语言、领土和文化归属的叙述复杂化，并突出个人和集体的非洲裔历史，以便通过广播、电影和在线媒体建立跨国的非洲人/克里奥尔社区。我们的主要目的是通过参与性社区媒体方式记录和传播尼加拉瓜、哥伦比亚和这些岛屿之间的文化、历史和家庭联系展现被地缘政治破坏的非洲人后裔的历史联系。媒体和电影往往可以使重新认同的战略变得明显，助长文化联系的碎片化，克服被认为是语言、地缘政治和国家障碍的障碍。该项目涉及与我们的非洲人后裔合作伙伴及其在尼加拉瓜加勒比海沿岸(比尔维和布鲁菲尔德)、圣安德烈·S群岛和普罗维登西亚群岛以及哥伦比亚大陆(波哥大和麦德林有相关的岛屿移民人口)的社区密切合作。调动该网络的丰富经验，以便将我们的研究成果横向传播给当地的非洲裔人口，在每个地方，我们将通过电影、广播和互联网开发一套创新的文本和视听资源，供非洲裔人在追求平等和发展时利用。因此，这笔资金将使我们以及我们在尼加拉瓜和哥伦比亚的合作伙伴能够将该网络的惠益扩大到更多的用户，并提供一套工具，帮助制定该区域的公共政策和政治宣传倡议。这些产出将明确与发展和福祉的斗争联系在一起，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，帮助非洲裔人口克服他们在各自民族国家的文化和政治隐身。该项目还将使我们能够编写一套书面和视听文本，使我们能够在不久的将来制作一部由哥伦比亚电视业共同资助的电视连续剧，讲述尼加拉瓜、哥伦比亚和圣安德烈·S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.