Cultura, saber y poder en Colombia: Diálogos entre estudios culturales y pedagogías críticas

Abstract

This work explores, based on research advances corresponding to the Interinstitutional Doctorate in Education, the possible relationships between cultural studies, education and critical pedagogies. Although Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies are fields of study with different research objects, theories and methods, both coincide in the interest in making readings of reality in which cultures, hegemonies are interwoven, in a dense and problematic way. and the resistances. In other words, it is a relationship possible thanks to a shared vocation for the interpretation of power and everyday life, not only based on the analysis of the contradictions between capital and work posed by Marxism since the 19th century, or produced after the deployment of discourse, knowledge and practices - through powerful technologies of government -, as Foucault suggests, but also by the ways in which culture and education are strategically installed around national projects, identities and representations. shared. This makes culture, education and pedagogy become useful analytical categories to understand how imagined communities, identities and forms of government are configured for social reproduction, as well as mixtures, hybridizations and resistances located on the horizon of social classes. , ethnicities, genders, diverse sexualities and generations.