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Actualizing Sonic, Visual, and Physical Territories of Hope: An Examination of Practices of Autonomy in Andean Urban Spaces (2003-2020)

Shipley, Caroline Rebecca Edella
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1598037002568098

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2020, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Spanish and Portuguese.
This dissertation examines how several alternative, autonomous collectives in Bolivia are creating new names, new languages and new ways of imagining and carrying out political practices that lead to social transformations. These emancipatory activities are occurring in Bolivia and other urban Andean spaces in politically imaginative ways, outside of the official structures of power that have claimed to bring about the formal decolonization of society. Bypassing permission, funding, or support from the state, these groups offer insight into how to make possible what even the Plurinational State of Bolivia has failed to materialize, and this insight is of utmost importance to reflection on autonomy today. A more profound knowledge of the strategies of these feminist and hip hop groups and how they are making other worlds possible in their daily activities and thinking can offer very critical insight into multiple fields of study. I consider the ongoing alternative struggles of these groups as the working of alternative emancipatory practices through the actualizing of sonic, visual, and physical territories of hope where multiple worlds are possible. All the struggles examined in this investigation revolve around the “same persistent questions,” as Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui asks: “How can the exclusive, ethnocentric `we’ be articulated with the inclusive `we’ – a homeland for everyone – that envisions decolonization?” (Rivera Cusicanqui, 2012, 97). This question loops back again and again to the even more overarching yet equally persistent question that she poses: “How have we thought and problematized, in the here and now, the colonized present and its overturning?” Pausing to learn from the wisdom and understanding that may accompany these experiences of creating new languages and ways to think about and actualize social transformation is sure to offer at least some possibility of igniting insurgent hope.
Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar (Advisor)
Ignacio Corona (Committee Member)
Ana Del Sarto (Committee Member)
Fernando Unzueta (Committee Member)
245 p.
Aesthetics; Art Criticism; Cultural Anthropology; Latin American Literature; Latin American Studies; Modern Language; Music; Performing Arts; Womens Studies
Latin American Hip Hop; Bolivia; Mujeres Creando; Ukamau y ke; autonomy; Andean Hip Hop; El Alto; Nacion Rap; Wayna Rap; Milagroso Altar Blasfemo; aymara; quechua; Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui; Maria Galindo; Danitza Luna; Santa Mala; Inmortal Kultura;

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  • Shipley, C. R. E. (2020). Actualizing Sonic, Visual, and Physical Territories of Hope: An Examination of Practices of Autonomy in Andean Urban Spaces (2003-2020) [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1598037002568098

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Shipley, Caroline. Actualizing Sonic, Visual, and Physical Territories of Hope: An Examination of Practices of Autonomy in Andean Urban Spaces (2003-2020). 2020. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1598037002568098.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Shipley, Caroline. "Actualizing Sonic, Visual, and Physical Territories of Hope: An Examination of Practices of Autonomy in Andean Urban Spaces (2003-2020)." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1598037002568098

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