Rancho Parao': Experiencias anti-hegemónicas por el buen vivir

Abstract

The work presented is materialized in two documents. The first one is the theoretical and deepening essay that I named: Rancho Para'o: Anti Hegemonic Experiences for the general and global and then land it to the methods of construction of this genre in Latin America and Colombia with specific socio-political contexts. In addition, I provide a historical context of the three community processes that inspired the chronicles, which through a relationship of solidarity made it possible to document their struggles. In this way, I review aspects of the Nasa people in Northern Cauca, their history and the most important milestones in their platform of struggle, I investigate the history of the processes for decent housing in Altos de la Estancia in the town of Ciudad Bolivar, Bogota and I relate the context of police violence that triggered the massacre of September 9, 2020. To conclude, I discuss the importance of representation and images in social processes through textile art such as photo-embroidery, sewing, or weaving to keep the work of memory active; for the above, I talk about the sewers of memory in Bogota and about similar post-dictatorship experiences in countries such as Brazil and Argentina. The second document is the book “Rancho Para'o”, which contains three chronicles of the community processes mentioned, together with embroidered photographs, taken and intervened by me, which accompany different moments of the text.