Transculturally Rural: Challenging Convivial Imaginations of 'Bettering' Life

Autor/in	Coello, Gioconda
Titel	Transculturally Rural: Challenging Convivial Imaginations of 'Bettering' Life
Quelle	In: Globalisation, Societies and Education, 21 (2023) 4, S.469-482 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Coello, Gioconda)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-7724
DOI	10.1080/14767724.2023.2192462
Schlagwörter	Rural Areas; Rural Population; Life Style; Indigenous Populations; Quality of Life; Foreign Countries; Indigenous Knowledge; Ecuador + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Landbevölkerung; Lebensstil; Sinti und Roma; Lebensqualität; Ausland
Abstract	During the 1960s-1970s in Ecuador, Indigenous and peasant movements challenged the descriptions of rural life in government education programmes while offering a space of transculture. As Sylvia Wynter [2003. 'Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation -- An Argument.' CR: "The New Centennial Review" 3 (3): 257-337.] proposes it, such space allows to narrate human life with sensibilities non-aligned with normalised cultural particularities of the ideal tacit 'we' in national(ised) stories. This text engages with the convivial movements between narratives and counternarratives about rural lives and ways of living. It argues that rural can be thought as a genre and ruralness as a practice of existence, which disrupt overdetermining notions of what counts as dignified life, valid political demands, and possible futures. That disruption is an exercise of conviviality where Indigenous and racialised peoples challenge a living together under rules and practices that demand their assimilation or erasure. Their "luchas" (fights) are proposals for coexistence through social change. Particularly the article looks at how the poem "The Bread of Life," published in the bilingual Kichwa/Spanish newspaper "Jatari Campesino," pushed back against the logics of 'bettering' lives offered by Fundamental Education and Community Development projects. These were projects espoused by the Ecuadorian Government and UNESCO and funded by the Alliance for Progress, among other foreign aid agencies. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01