Afro-Latin American geographies of in-betweenness

Colonial marronage in Colombia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11908158
AutoresAna Laura Zavala Guillen (0000-0001-9965-3543, Queen Mary University of London, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume72
Páginas13-22
Data de publicação2021-03-18
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Historical Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0305-7488 • E-ISSN: 1095-8614
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.jhg.2021.02.002
OpenAlexW3136445873
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16

This article explores Maroon spatialities during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through a critical geographical analysis based on historical records collected in the General Archive of the Indies, the National General Archive of Bogotá, and the oral tradition of San Basilio de Palenque, a community of descendants of fugitives from slavery located in the Montes de María in the Colombian Caribbean. The article’s findings show that San Basilio de Palenque survived by navigating in-between different colonial forms of producing territory that simultaneously implied opposition and co-optation. Drawing on Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui’s “ch’ixi” and Gloria Anzaldúa’s “border notions,” this spatial navigation embraced opposition and fissure between African, European, and indigenous elements without trying to suppress or reconcile them. This ethic of spatial balance as marronage was San Basilio de Palenque’s formula for survival. The methodology implemented in this article also required stepping in-between the archive and the oral tradition, without taking sides, taking a ch’ixi/border approach, as well revisiting the history of this Maroon community in Latin America

Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Latin Americans · Maroon · Opposition (politics · Political science · Sociology · Tierra · Visual arts · Anthropology · Cuban History and Society · History · Law · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography · Philippine History and Culture

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