bachelorThesis
Hacia el triunfo de la etnicidad en Bahía Portete: del terror a la memoria histórica
Fecha
2015Autor
Vélez Aristizábal, Sebastián
Institución
Resumen
This research aims to analyze the instrumentalization of ethnicity after the massacre in
Bahia Portete (La Guajira, Colombia, 2004); Instrumentalization understood as the
strategic use of the difference to negotiate, make visible, pursue goals and gain recognition
in the framework of power relations that occur within a State that has tended to turn what
the ethnic as point of action. In this sense, it describes the context of the Wayuu community
in Colombia and some state mechanisms that converted the ethnic in a point of the State
action. This study is part of the debate about the construction of ethnic subjects within the
Colombian State and seeks to understand the strategic use of ethnicity from the actions
undertaken by the Wayuu community of Portete Bay after the massacre, to which the
research methodology will be mainly the analysis of academic sources on ethnicity in
Colombia and in general, interviews with the leaders of the community, news on events and strategic analysis of the sources and mechanisms of the State that have the ethnic as the
focus of action.