Beyond Horror: Daily Ethics and Feminism in Post-Conflict Chocó

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Published: Jun 4, 2019
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ethics, feminism, digital storytelling, Chocó

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Tania Lizarazo
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Abstract

Survival in Chocó's postconflict period is an everyday experience grounded in intentionality and collaboration. This article explores the process of narrating and researching survival as examples of ethical practices. It traces and analyzes Mujeres Pacíficas, a digital storytelling project created in collaboration with the members of the Gender Commission of a farmworker’s organization, COCOMACIA (Consejo Comunitario Mayor de la Asociación Campesina Integral del Atrato, the Main Community Council of the Integral Peasant Association of the Atrato River). Framing survival as everyday ethics, Mujeres Pacíficas also values the potential of ethics and digital storytelling as methodological practices. Centering what exists beyond horror does not mean to deny the continuities of multiples forms of violence against black women's lives in a postconflict context that has yet to materialize. It is recognizing practices and ways of knowing that imagine, in every day ways, other forms of being and coexisting in spaces marked by violence.

 

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Vol. 53 (2019): Peace On a Small Scale: Fractures of the Everyday and the Politics of Transition in Colombia
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Author Biography

Tania Lizarazo, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) contributing to the Global Studies Program, the Spanish Area, and the MA in Intercultural Communication. She is Affiliate Faculty of Gender + Women’s Studies, and Language, Literacy & Culture. She received her Ph.D. in Latin American Literature and Cultures, with emphases in Feminist Theory & Research and Studies in Performance & Practice from the University of California, Davis in 2015.
 
Her research interests include digital storytelling, Latin American cultural studies, transnational feminisms, and memory studies. Her recent digital storytelling projects are a collaboration with the Gender Committee of a farmers’ organization from the Colombian Pacific (Mujeres Pacíficas) and a collaboration with farm working communities in California’s Central Valley (Sexualidades Campesinas). Her ongoing digital storytelling projects include: “Moving Stories: Latinas in Baltimore,” and the service learning project “Intercultural Tales: Learning With Baltimore’s Immigrant Communities.”