Modernidad, descolonización y fracturas identitarias
What this research work seeks to expose, throughout different strategies and techniques, both theorical and practical, is the identity crisis and ruptures that the former colonial workers suffer when experiencing a process of decolonization and further exile. The space and time of the research is si...
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| Format: | master thesis |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2021 |
| Country: | México |
| Institution: | Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas |
| Repository: | Repositorio Institucional Caxcán |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:http://ricaxcan.uaz.edu.mx:20.500.11845/3123 |
| Online Access: | http://ricaxcan.uaz.edu.mx/jspui/handle/20.500.11845/3123 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA [4] descolonización identidad fracturas modernidad |
| Summary: | What this research work seeks to expose, throughout different strategies and techniques, both theorical and practical, is the identity crisis and ruptures that the former colonial workers suffer when experiencing a process of decolonization and further exile. The space and time of the research is situated in the wave of decolonization that initiated in the second half of the 20th century, mostly in European colonies located in the African continent. The purpose of this thesis is to approach a topic that has been broadly studied, but to do it through a humanistic, sociological and philosophical perspective, leaving aside the political and economic factors that these types of situations carry. The object of investigation is centered specifically on the decolonization processes of Equatorial Guinea (former Spanish colony) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (former Belgian colony). In order to prove the raised hypothesis, which enunciates that the identity fractures suffered by the former colonial workers during a decolonization process are far more traumatic than those experienced by the newly freed people at the exact same moment in time, the methodology that is here proposed begins with a historical and chronological contextualization of the colonization and movements of population developed throughout different periods of time, as well as an analytical definition of theorical concepts such as decolonization and post coloniality. Furthermore, the investigative work continues approaching different statements about identity made by numerous philosophers such as Plato, Aristoteles, Charles Taylor and Paul Ricoeur. Lastly, the research ends with the presentation of a global overview of what the situation was in the 1950’s and 1960’s, in the colonies and their metropolis, in order to, later, put together all the elements earlier exposed and, with the help of literature and real testimonies made by children of former workers of the Belgian Congo, underlie every supposition made throughout the research and open the doors to many other strands of study that can emerge from this topic. |
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