The courage to move : relationship systems of cultural actors in Medellin, creators and accelerators of cultural policies

• Author(s): Orrego Trujillo, Juliana
• Date: 2022
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/36968
• Origin: Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa
• Subject(s): Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Sociologia
• Document Type: Master thesis
• Language: English
• Advisor(s): Silva, Ana Luísa dos Santos Diniz da
• Contributor(s): Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Description

This study explores the ways in which different actors in the cultural ecosystem mobilize, negotiate, create, activate and accelerate cultural policies and politics of life through their processes and practices, focusing mainly on actors from the city of Medellín, Colombia. A proposal that has as one of its most distinctive characteristics the fact that it was conceived from local notions, thoughts, and forms – the embodied standpoints. The analysis is based on positions, concepts, and theories that are developed within the framework of the Americas of the South: Central America, South America, and the Caribbean; and looks into specific contributions of the neighborhoods and corners of Medellín. This study brings together the main aspects of actor’s relationship tactics and approaches in the cultural sector. It considers their achievements, tensions, mistakes, fears, creations, and desires under the proposed tool and notion of movimiento (movement) as the interplay of subjectivities and ways of relating and a versatile maneuver itself. It argues that the multiple actors and groups participating in the arts and culture ecosystem are formulators, accelerators, transgressors, and disruptors of cultural policies in the city; and in consequence, policies strengthen and challenge actors’ processes and projects. The study pushes for considerations on the possibilities around the many ways of being and relating, thinking-doing through collective creation and movement.