The Movement and Stillness of Weaving
How Emberá Dobidá Women Imagine and Experience Urbanization in Medellín, Colombia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2229958 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Agathe Faure (London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 177-205 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Anthropological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-7710 • E-ISSN: 2153-3806 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/729739 |
| OpenAlex | W4396768564 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
Drawing on twenty months of fieldwork conducted with Emberá Dobidá women in the city of Medellín, Colombia, this article aims to examine the detailed components of their recent urbanization. I trace how “weaving beads” in the city affects the ways in which Emberá Dobidá women imagine and live their urban experience. I suggest that specific movements, produced in the weaving practice, generate specific transformations, both desired and uncontrolled. I show how new aspirations have led women to desire “to sit at home” and to rely on weaving to find a certain stillness. Stillness is then active, ideally transformative and transitory, and potentially allows women to build a future outside the house. I also examine how women’s aspirations are broken by the reality of the weaving industry in Medellín which effectively makes them stuck. Repetitive, painful, unhalted movements generate disappointing urban experiences and prevent desired transformations
Aesthetics · Art · Economic growth · Economics · Movement (music) · Urbanization · Weaving · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Latin American Urban Studies · Public Spaces through Art
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |