Una geografía para la guerra
Narrativas del cerco en Francisco José de Caldas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4518168 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Felipe Martínez Pinzón (New York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Issue | 38 |
| Pages | 108-119 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revista de Estudios Sociales (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0123-885X • E-ISSN: 1900-5180 |
| Publisher | Universidad de los Andes (PUBLISHER • VE) |
| DOI | 10.7440/res38.2011.08 |
| OpenAlex | W2067929271 |
| Language | ES |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
In two emblematic texts-"Estado de la geografía del Virreinato de Santafé" (1807) and "Del influjo del clima sobre los seres organizados" (1808)-Francisco José de Caldas constructs a spatial narrative for the New Granada where the site of siege is localized at the center of the imagined map of the Vice-kingdom. The outside of civilization are the lowlands-and more radically, the jungle-with its mulatto, zambo, black, and indigenous populations, which always already threaten to take over the inside, the place of enunciation, a tempered climate of altitude, similar to that of Europe, inhabited by fantasized whites or light-skinned Hispanized/able mestizos. In creating a besieged geography, Caldas also invents a lasting paradigm whereby the Colombian state exercises warfare on its own territory as a means of actualizing its genetic narrative. Thus, this ideological construct sets in motion the menace of invasion as a ready-made dispositive that actualizes the polarities of Caldas's exclusionary map
Art · Humanities · Geography and Education Methods · History and Politics in Latin America · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |