DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14483/2422278X.24116Published:
2025-12-01Issue:
Vol. 18 No. 2 (2025): Cartografías Vivas de la Paz desde las Aulas, el Cuerpo y los Territorios.Section:
Pensando regionesMi Ciudad como Metáfora de Vida: Emociones y Resistencias ante la Injusticia Epistémica
My City as a Metaphor for Life: Emotions and Resistance to Epistemic Injustice
Keywords:
Cañahuateras, Emociones, Resistencia, Injusticia Epistémica, Ciudad (es).Keywords:
Cañahuateras, Emotions, Endurance, Epistemic Injustice, City (en).Downloads
Abstract (es)
Esta experiencia reflexiva camina las calles de Valledupar en el departamento del Cesar (Colombia), un territorio que en el texto se encarna en una metáfora resiliente y disrruptiva, la de las mujeres como sujetas que construyen ciudad. Los pensamientos aquí reunidos son saberes del convivio en diálogos con autoras y autores que han nombrado desde una mirada crítica y otras feministas los fenómenos que, en el trasegar de la ciudad, entrelazan con la vida de quienes la habitan. Esta apuesta se sitúa desde las emociones, los sentidos y los significados, y constituye un marco de resistencia frente a las injusticias que los poderes hegemónicos perpetúan en lo urbano. El posicionamiento de las personas, en particular el de las llamadas “cañahuateras”, que emerge desde fragilidades y pobrezas, permite construir espacios comunitarios y populares, donde se teje un mapa afectivo alterno que, desde la digna rabia, resignifica y dignifica la vida urbana en este pedazo del Caribe colombiano.
Abstract (en)
This reflective experience walks the streets of Valledupar, in the department of Cesar (Colombia), a territory that in this text takes shape through a resilient and disruptive metaphor: women as subjects who build the city. The reflections gathered here emerge from everyday forms of shared knowledge and dialogue with authors who, from critical and feminist perspectives, have named the phenomena that, in the daily movement through the city, intertwine with the lives of those who inhabit it. This approach is grounded in emotions, senses, and meanings, and it stands as a framework of resistance against the injustices that hegemonic powers reproduce in urban spaces. The positioning of people, particularly the women known as cañahuateras, emerges from conditions of vulnerability and poverty, yet enables the creation of community-based and popular spaces where an alternative affective map is woven. From a place of dignified anger, this map redefines and restores dignity to urban life in this part of the Colombian Caribbean.
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