Colombian imagination from a popular neighborhood of Bogota

Abstract

This text gathers the signs that indicate the existence of the Colombianidad concept as the basis of national identity, from the ways of representing, saying and doing, established in the discourses and belief systems of Colombian national subjects. Also, the rhetoric that reproduces the symbolic frameworks present in ourselves and in our Colombian equality.

All of the above, a searching that enunciates various theoretical positions giving figure to these categories from psychological, anthropological, political, linguistic and historiographic contributions. Faced with this hypothesis, a material sense is proposed with the application of various methodologies in the social issues of the Bachué, Villa Cristina and Luis Carlos Galán neighborhoods, based on the life history, participant observation, IAP and social cartography, that describe since a systemic analysis of the communities and their territories, peripheral, daily, anonymous and ethnic elements, as well as features of citizen culture.

The objective is focused on discovering the cultural and communicative phenomena existing in the urban, school and familiar realities, that specify the imaginary and forms of popular culture, visualizing elements that have not been taken into account in other historical, social or historiographic studies.