Una opción sutil de protestar

Literary Magazines, Subterranean Resistance, and Life Politics in Putumayo, Colombia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2170408
AutoresMathilda Eliza Shepard (0000-0002-3416-448X, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume30
Fascículo3
Páginas371-397
Data de publicação2021-07-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13569325.2021.1964943
OpenAlexW3211929286
IdiomaES
Referências citadas42

This article examines the poetics of resistance in Katharsis: la revista literaria del Putumayo. Established during the occupation of southwestern Colombia by right-wing paramilitary forces (1997–2006), Katharsis describes itself as both the “literary door to Putumayo” and a “strategy of resisting war.” While cultural studies have offered valuable insights into the acts of witnessing, mediating, and critiquing violence in Colombia, the question of resistance – a concept situated between thought and action, representation and concrete practice – remains understudied. I propose that Katharsis engages in “subterranean resistance”, or a strategy of working beneath the surface of what is visibly political to promote other ways of thinking, feeling, and living in militarised spaces. By critically engaging the relational space of territory, Katharsis constructs modes of representing and inhabiting Putumayo that diverge from the territoriality of paramilitarism. The magazine anchors subterranean resistance in a “life politics” (Lyons 2016 Lyons, Kristina Marie. 2016. “Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils, Selva, and Small Farmers under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs.” Cultural Anthropology 31 (1): 56–81.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) that situates human life within the more-than-human ecologies of the selva. In doing so, it links Putumayo to other geographies negatively impacted by extractivism, chemical warfare, and parastate violence across the Global South

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