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This article analyzes the concept of Colombian national identity, within the framework of postcolonial studies and, especially, through the work of Colombian philosopher, Santiago Castro-Gómez (1958), who approaches this phenomenon with a Foucauldian focus. This postcolonial perspective acknowledges the role of identity in the reproduction of colonial power -- more so, when a nationalist imaginary such as Colombia's is constituted--and, to that extent, it becomes relevant to understanding current social and cultural issues in the country. Thus, this article highlights two analytical categories: coloniality and genealogy. On the one hand, the contribution by coloniality will provide the theoretical arsenal and the connection with the colonial case. On the other, genealogy will establish the relationship with the methodological proposal adopted by Castro-Gómez. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is the result of the metric lexical analysis of Cartagena's newspaper called Argos Americano (September 1810-March 1812) which shows the various discussions that took place on topics such as nation, government and independence during a turbulent time in which Spain had been invaded by the armies of Napoleon and the King Ferdinand VII was made prisoner, leaving a power vacuum that plunged regions of the American continent in uncertainty to define a government. This work is part of the research project ''Cultural History of the Press of the New Granada (1810-1820) sponsored by the Directorate of Research and the School of Communication at the University of La Sabana. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we will reflect on two temporal exhibitions held in the premises of the National Museum of Colombia, from discussions about multiculturalism, patrimonial appropriation processes, the new museology and politics of representation. First, we will consider the case of Velorios y santos vivos. Comunidades negras, afrocolombianas, raizales y palenqueras and, on the other hand, Del monumento al pensamiento. Patrimonio de Colombia para la humanidad, two exhibition experiences that account for different ways of conceiving a multiethnic and multicultural nation, both in the production process and in the final product presented to the public and that in turn, show the challenges which this state institution faces when looking to capture the logic of affirmation and appreciation of difference introduced in the 1991 Constitution and in the politics of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the early twentieth century, reading and writing processes in Colombia aimed at developing strategies that, in one way or another, strengthened political, pedagogical or ideological projects. Elementary education adopted textbooks as a tool for the projection of the confessional, hispanistic and conservative values of the time. With this in mind, a series of textbooks were analyzed in order to find the overlapping traces and voices (Bakhtin, 1982) in the text. For this, the content analysis technique was used, along with elements of qualitative and quantitative interpretation. Some of the features that characterized this historical period of the nation were identified in the selected textbooks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article seeks to stimulate thought around the language we use in social sciences and in Colombian public fields when speaking about Colombia; in other words, to promote thought, debates, and proposals about the country in general. I propose bringing the notion of the republic to the forefront, and abandoning the use - except in specific cases - of the notions of patria (homeland), and nation. The notion of republic refers to a geographic field of law, certainly in constant construction, but completely tangible, applicable, and susceptible of being discussed with regard to its validity, reform, application, or infraction. The notion of republic opens possibilities of critical thought regarding history, social sciences, humanities, law, and art, and simultaneously leads to responsible and pertinent discussions in the public field. At the same time, the word patria was used in the origins of the republic to invoke in its favor feelings of local belonging forged in previous centuries and which are today extemporaneous. The term nation, in highly inequitable societies such as Colombia's, refers to a project set in the future, and it is not uncommon to find the expression "construction of a nation". As a category of social analysis, the term has limited reach and its effect in critical thought is to create ambiguity and mystification. To demonstrate this I focus on two relatively recent books in which a debate between two general and opposite perceptions of Colombia is tacitly started. This debate loses strength precisely because it is stated in terms of nation and not of republic. I am referring to the books of Alfonso Múnera, El fracaso de la nación (The Failure of Nation) (1998) and Eduardo Posada Carbó, La nación soñada (The Dreamed Nation) (2006). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article shows that the Republic was a pivotal reference point in the political language of early nineteenth-century Colombia. By articulating old and new meanings, the Republic allows us to discuss the possibilities of an analysis that, leaving aside the nation as a privileged concept, follows the changing shape of the political community. The article first discusses some of the problems with the analytical category of nation as the privileged way to understand the post-revolutionary period. Next, it highlights the various options available at the start of the nineteenth century to refer to the political community-fatherland, nation, republican homeland- to then emphasize the centrality of republican invocations. In the third section, it shows how the idea of the Republic was pervaded by Catholic references. The article concludes by insisting how this case suggests new ways of thinking about the shape and trajectory of political communities in early nineteenth-century Colombia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is a historical approach to the National Museum of Colombia, in order to analyze the representations of the Nation and its inhabitants exhibited between 1880 and 1912. First, it refers to some of the features of the Museum, taking into account its development during the nineteenth century and the social and cultural function it fulfilled; it then studies how collections were established by examining their origin and type of object gathered at the time, discussing how objects were classified in relation to the segment population and the variation of this classification during this period. Finally, it exemplifies how specific segments of the population were represented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

After independence was achieved and throughout the 19th century, political, economical and cultural Colombian elites invented a model of nation based on the idea that highlands and white race were progress exclusive raw material, as though; based on racial and geographical attributions a regional hierarchy was built, and this allowed the configuration of local identities defined by this model. Meanwhile, besides Antioquia had an important presence of African and African descendant population since colonial times, from different enunciation places and turning over the colonization entrepreneurship of the 19th century as a the foundational myth, representations that showed Antioquia and its inhabitants as a successful correlate of the relationship between Andean highlands and white race started to be created, opposing to the negative valuation over lowlands and black population. This article, on one side, examines which were the representational mechanisms of Africans and their descendants in Antioquia through Tomas Carrasquilla literary work, and, on the other, wants to make evident that those creations marginalized the contributions done by Africans and their descendants to Antioquean history. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from the novel Yngermina (1844), the article reflects on the racial configuration of Bolívar Grande, showing that, even at the end of the nineteenth century, indigenous people still had a significant presence among the population and society of this part of Colombia's Caribbean region. It critiques those who have censured the novel's author for rooting his fictionalization of this region's formation in native peoples. It also analyzes why they were made invisible during that century, and why contemporary academic work reproduces this view. By introducing an hitherto-ignored ethnic variable, it adds a central element to current discussions on this region, nation, and identitarian relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through an indepth analysis of writings published between 1853 and 1869, this article demonstrates that the writing of history in Colombia was influenced by the modern- colonial experience of learned citizens. From this perspective, the 19th century writers perceived and described a world in which the racial characters, the singularities of the environment and the local customs, were the basic interpretive tools in order to understand the past, modify the present and construct the future. This resulted in a historiography whereby the national territory, the person and the understanding of time, were fractured by the presence of inappropriate alterities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]