Transculturally rural

Challenging convivial imaginations of ‘bettering’ life

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ID12726199
AuthorsGioconda Coello (0000-0002-0018-7560, Universidad de las Artes, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume21
Issue4
Pages469-482
Publication date2023-03-27
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobalisation Societies and Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1476-7724 • E-ISSN: 1476-7732
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14767724.2023.2192462
OpenAlexW4361006952
LanguageEN
References cited12

During the 1960s–1970s in Ecuador, Indigenous and peasant movements challenged the descriptions of rural life in government education programmes while offering a space of transculture. As Sylvia Wynter [2003. ‘Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation – An Argument.’ CR: The New Centennial Review 3 (3): 257–337.] proposes it, such space allows to narrate human life with sensibilities non-aligned with normalised cultural particularities of the ideal tacit ‘we’ in national(ised) stories. This text engages with the convivial movements between narratives and counternarratives about rural lives and ways of living. It argues that rural can be thought as a genre and ruralness as a practice of existence, which disrupt overdetermining notions of what counts as dignified life, valid political demands, and possible futures. That disruption is an exercise of conviviality where Indigenous and racialised peoples challenge a living together under rules and practices that demand their assimilation or erasure. Their luchas (fights) are proposals for coexistence through social change. Particularly the article looks at how the poem The Bread of Life, published in the bilingual Kichwa/Spanish newspaper Jatari Campesino, pushed back against the logics of ‘bettering’ lives offered by Fundamental Education and Community Development projects. These were projects espoused by the Ecuadorian Government and UNESCO and funded by the Alliance for Progress, among other foreign aid agencies

Aesthetics · Alliance · Art · Government (linguistics · Indigenous · Narrative · Peasant · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Law · Political theory and Gramsci · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism

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