Garífuna Resilience: Navigating Resistance Amidst Tourism, Neoliberalism, and Colonial Legacy in Honduras
Garífuna activism and ancestral memory against dispossession and displacement in Honduras
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media studies, garífunas, memory, honduras, displacementResumen
En la costa norte de Honduras, proteger la identidad y la conexión con la tierra sigue siendo difícil para el grupo indígena afrodescendiente garífunas, también conocidos como Garínagus. Los centros turísticos, aquí considerados ejemplos de heterotopías, amenazan la memoria ancestral de los garífunas. En Honduras, la narrativa del estado y municipal del desarrollo poscolonial sobre mecanismos de desarrollo legales e institucionales criminaliza a los activistas garífunas, líderes comunitarios y defensores de la tierra y los presiona para que vendan sus tierras. En Honduras, los mecanismos de un modelo económico neoliberal, por un lado, y el racismo, por el otro, contribuyen a racializar a los garífunas, a definirlos como atrasados y no como “ciudadanos plenos”. Al referirse al caso de la Comunidad Triunfo de la Cruz, cuyas tierras han sido apropiadas por empresas privadas y el municipio con la aquiescencia del Estado, el movimiento de justicia territorial Organización Fraternal Negra de Honduras (OFRANEH) sostiene que los garífunas ocupan un lugar precario, espacio liminal en en el país, por lo que se ataca su memoria ancestral. Analizo el despojo de los garífunas de sus tierras como un ejemplo del “entrelazamiento genealógico” donde la amnesia colonial del Estado hondureño trabaja para excluir a los garífunas del imaginario de Honduras. Este proceso de exclusión y marginación también está utilizando el patrimonio, el folclore y las tradiciones garífunas exclusivamente como un activo para aumentar las ganancias de los destinos turísticos en Honduras.
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