Fanzine: Juana Julia Guzmán

Available in English: Juana Julia Guzmán

afro-indigeneity, grassroots feminism, Latin America, struggle

We have been told that the feminist movement in Colombia was born out of the fight for women’s suffrage. We have also been told that feminism in our country evolved based on the “waves” that emerged in the global north. But what would happen if we questioned these stories, imported from other places and other experiences? What if we thought of feminism as the struggles by women in our territory in response to the multiple oppressions against women, small farmers, indigenous people, black people, and workers since the colonial era? And what if we did this by listening to what social movements and some currents of grassroots feminism in Colombia have been telling us for decades: by recognizing Juana Julia Guzman, an Afro-indigenous woman active in the Caribbean coast region of Colombia in the 1920s, as a pioneer of our feminist struggles. A pioneer who was not a laundress or a domestic worker, yet fought for the rights of laundresses and domestic workers; who was not subject to the matrícula—a kind of debt slavery—yet fought to abolish it; and who was not a farmer, yet fought for small farmers’ right to land.

Through an accessible yet rigorous narrative, this comic book recovers the story of Juana Julia Guzmán, a grassroots leader who, along with domestic workers and peasants from northern Colombia, confronted labor exploitation and the landowners. This work not only reclaims Guzmán’s memory but also casts light on the collective experiences that made processes of emancipation possible.

Diana Milena Patiño Niño

Milena identifies as a mestiza woman from Abya Ayala, a feminist, a mother, and a mestiza philosopher; a woman who speaks, sees, and listens from her dignified rage. A feminist who emerged from the strength and dignity of her mother, her grandmother, and a network of women who taught her feminism from and in everyday life.

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Barbara Quintino

Barbara Quintino is a Brazilian visual artist and illustrator. She has always enjoyed drawing and inventing worlds on paper: first in notebooks, then in the books she now helps to create. She mainly works with book illustration and children’s literature.

She enjoys walking and observing the details of the landscape; many of these images end up reappearing in his drawings in some way.

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María Alejandra Martínez Junca

María Alejandra is a freelance artist and teacher born in Bogota, Colombia (1987), interested in human rights, education, and science popularization. She worked on the editorial design for this fanzine.

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Acknowledgements

Translation: Eric Schwartz (eas@eastranslation.com)

These texts are the result of part of Milena Patiño Niño’s doctoral research. Their source was the Orlando Fals Borda Center for Regional Documentation in Monteria, thanks to the generosity of Professor Joanne Rappaport, who shared her archival work.

Special thanks to: Professor Joanne Rappaport; Diana Carmona, director of the Cultural Area of the Monteria office of the Bank of the Republic; and Professor Víctor Negrete.

And above all, thanks to the work of the Caribbean Foundation in the 1970s and to the ANUC (National Small Farmers’ Association)–Sincelejo Line, which handed down to us this historical memory of the small farmers’ movement in Monteria in the 1920s.

This research was made possible by funding from Colciencias @minciencias_co and the Fulbright Program in Colombia @fulbrightcolombia.

Classic Approaches to Security

Traditionally, only states were actors of security in security research. This meant that states were seen as the ones who act and who were capable of performing security in the international arena, at least in the eyes of International Relations canon and particularly in terms of military security (Morgenthau, 1954; Waltz, 2001, 2010). However, after the end of the Cold War and the subsequent widening of the security agenda, new research laid more emphasis on the social construction of security (Katzenstein, 1996), and since the development of these new approaches to security the field has made substantial progress in understanding, conceptualising and utilising empirical and conceptual insights in the dynamics of producing, ordering and maintaining security within and beyond the state’s framework. These further developments range from security communities (Adler & Barnett, 1996, 2008) to the various constructions, controversies and (re-)negotiation of security and order in public-private relations (Abrahamsen & Williams, 2009, 2010) and hybrid security governance (Schröder, Chappuis, & Kocak, 2014).

How to cite this entry:

Ketzmerick-Calandrino 2024: “Security. Speaking with Fanon?”. Virtual Encyclopaedia – Rewriting Peace and Conflict. 08.10.2024. https://rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/security-speaking-with-fanon/.