Digital resources in the Social Sciences and Humanities OpenEdition Our platforms OpenEdition Books OpenEdition Journals Hypotheses Calenda Libraries OpenEdition Freemium Follow us
Categorias
Billets

The cultural diversity of memories and communities (III)

Social museology and violence in contexts of memory institutions.

It is recognized that the differences of each community make different ways of responses to the forms of violence to be be worked. By opening a research program close to the target communities of violence, it implies that researchers are prepared to work with diversity. Appropriate responses must be found to each cultural and social context of each community. These types of programs are included within the procedures of Meridional epistemologies, which differ from the research needs of academies.

Research processes require specific times to understand specific problems, which often forces the questioning of our and others’ values, from which knowledge innovation can be reconstructed.

In short, the practice of otherness that cultural diversity demands has the potential to increase the depth and extent of understanding of the cultural territories of communities.

Thinking from the ontology of the community, is not just to apply to the ability to listen to the other. It is from this listening to building innovation. If we consider social processes as rhizomatic flows, we must think that the search for innovative flows for the creation of alive. And among the possibilities of choosing paths, we must make choices for those who present themselves as generators of life (seed cities).

Social museology and its institutions should be thought of as an educational institution for the formation of human beings, and not as a place for the construction of hegemonic narratives or the creation of technicalities.

Categorias
Billets

Critical thinking and nomad museology

Critical thinking and nomadic museology (cultural diversity and community memory II)

The analyses of contemporary social processes tend to propose a methodology that evaluates flux and rhizomatic configurations. The social reality (given by the awareness of relevance) and the games of the actors in process implies methods of analyzing the changes. Conflicts and actors are in the process. However, in questions of identities there are invariables or constants that constitute values and principles that have lower rates of change.

In the analysis of the construction of memory of the communities, made from the participatory processes, through meridional epistemic practices (the knowledge production in horizontal relations, made through the actors) aims not only to create new relations of power based on dignity human relationship, as well as allowing new relational ties to be rebuilt on the basis of self-recognition and the other.

The recognition of cultural diversity as hermeneutics requires that the validation of scientific production be less focused on the production of hegemonic knowledge, created from hegemonic actors (overvaluation of science); to give space to the emergence of a production of knowledge that is close to the gnosiological architecture of the communities (appreciation of diversity).

This issue is particularly evident in working contexts with violent or traumatic memories. The process of reparation of violence in hegemonic communities implies working from cultural diversity, not to reverse subordinate memories in hegemonic and vice versa, but to recognize the difference, to work from this diversity to create new memories that overcome the trauma.