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- Title
Una geografía para la guerra: narrativas del cerco en Francisco José de Caldas.
- Authors
Pinzón, Felipe Martínez
- Abstract
In two emblematic texts-"Estado de la geografía del Virreinato de Santafé" (1807) and "Del influjo del clima sobre los seres organizados" (1808)-Francisco José de Caldas constructs a spatial narrative for the New Granada where the site of siege is localized at the center of the imagined map of the Vice-kingdom. The outside of civilization are the lowlands-and more radically, the jungle-with its mulatto, zambo, black, and indigenous populations, which always already threaten to take over the inside, the place of enunciation, a tempered climate of altitude, similar to that of Europe, inhabited by fantasized whites or light-skinned Hispanized/able mestizos. In creating a besieged geography, Caldas also invents a lasting paradigm whereby the Colombian state exercises warfare on its own territory as a means of actualizing its genetic narrative. Thus, this ideological construct sets in motion the menace of invasion as a ready-made dispositive that actualizes the polarities of Caldas's exclusionary map.
- Subjects
COLOMBIA; CALDAS, Francisco Jose de, 1768-1816; RACE relations &; politics; SIEGES; POPULATION policy; COLOMBIAN history, 1810-
- Publication
Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2011, Issue 38, p108
- ISSN
0123-885X
- Publication type
Article