Revista de Estudios Sociales (Apr 2023)
La lucha feminista de Juana Julia Guzmán
Abstract
The article has a double purpose. The first is to sketch the Colombian and Afro-indigenous leader Juana Julia Guzmán, by circulating some excerpts from the interviews held with her by the Fundación del Caribe team in the archives of the Centro de Documentación Regional Orlando Fals Borda in Montería. This sketch could be considered, in certain aspects, divergent from the one outlined by sociologist Orlando Fals Borda in the fourth volume of his Historia doble de la costa. This forms the basis for the second objective of this article: to explore a feature of Guzmán’s feminism, namely, acuerpamiento or support. The methodology used is strategically plural, close to the multiple ones used in cultural studies. In effect, on the one hand, based on archival work, we will reproduce those parts of Guzmán’s words that contribute to create an image of the actions and some characteristics of her political trajectory, somewhat contradictory and unknown to the general public. To this end, we will also approach the discussions of the researcher Víctor Negrete in his book Origen de las luchas agrarias en Córdoba. On the other hand, and making use of a perspective that we have called mestizo philosophy, we use the tools of hermeneutics to creatively analyze Guzmán’s actions, together with the notion of agreement that finds its origin in the actions of the feminist Lorena Cabnal. Besides providing other coordinates based on which to think about Guzmán’s feminism, different from those of popular feminism that other people have pointed out in her, we hope that this exercise will also reveal the complexity of this leader, whose political actions were not inevitable, nor were they the product of the deprivation into which she was born and raised, but were determined by situations and decisions, such as supporting the political actions of others different from her.
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