Description
Organizer of double panel on "Los afectos (efectos) de la lucha: Descolonizando las emociones". The panel addresses the role that affectivity plays in agendas of resistance and social justice. The Western tradition, which has relegated affects to the private and apolitical, is being displaced by a greater recognition of affects and emotions in the struggle for social justice. In panel 1, we reflect on how artistic interventions are a space to create “anti-racist affectivity” between artists and spectators in Argentina; and how the methodology of living auto-ethnography of the Casa Cultural “El Chanturo” in Cali seeks to heal bodies and territories that have been violated. A review of the documentation process of the Observatory on Disappearance and Impunity in Mexico gives rise to the question: to what extent is the wound of disappearances documentable and how can this tool operate as a form of healing? In the second panel, we delve into how the therapeutic turn has been transformed by struggles for racial justice. Artists in Colombia use their practices to mobilize affect and emotions to cushion the effects of the trauma of racism. The Collective to Eliminate Racism in Mexico proposes the need for collective racial healing as part of anti-racist work. While concepts of internalized racism focus on logics of inferiorization, less attention is paid to the internalization of superiority. Combining interviews with Black and Indigenous activists, this panel explores the learning of superiority as a blind spot of racist oppression.| Period | 14 Jun 2024 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Bogota, ColombiaShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |