The Past Is Made by Walking

Labor Activism and Historical Production in Postcolonial Guadeloupe

Bibliographic Data

ID2277795
AuthorsYarimar Bonilla (0000-0002-0948-7252, University of Virginia, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume26
Issue3
Pages313-339
Publication date2011-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0886-7356 • E-ISSN: 1548-1360
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-1360.2011.01101.x
OpenAlexW2165736276
LanguageEN
Citations received27
References cited56

The act of walking represents an important (yet underexamined) element of political protest and collective action, as well as an increasingly common form of historical commemoration. In this article I examine the development of a series of "memory walks" by labor activists in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. I argue that these peripatetic practices constitute a particular spatial, kinesthetic, and sensorial form of historical and archival production. Along the way, I consider what these events reveal about postcolonial forms of archival production and the importance of historical praxis to the formation of political subjectivities

Economics · Political science · Production (economics · Sociology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Gender Studies · History · Migration, Identity, and Health

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