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- Title
Cultural Democracy: Politicising and historicising the adoption of narrative practices in the Americans.
- Authors
POLANCO, MARCELA
- Abstract
Many practices of narrative therapy have spread widely around the world when adopted by practitioners of diverse cultures. In this paper, I present a personal reflection on my attempts at politicising and historicising the adoption of narrative therapy into my local culture. In a spirit of cultural democracy, I depart from acknowledging my own heritage of mestizaje, including the history of colonisation of Latin America. Following, I briefly present three phases as possible preparations for the initial arrival of narrative therapy to my culture and subsequent dialogue among cultures: a) adopting a decolonial critical stance; b) foreignising narrative practices; and c) facilitating cultural agency. I illustrate my attempts at dialoging with the foreign term externalisation to translate/reimagine its decolonial version in my local culture.
- Subjects
LATIN America; DEMOCRACY; POLITICAL culture; NARRATIVE therapy; MESTIZO culture; COLONIZATION
- Publication
International Journal of Narrative Therapy & Community Work, 2013, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
1446-5019
- Publication type
Article