Descripción del proyecto
Un análisis más profundo del discurso histórico sobre el patrimonio cultural europeo
Preservar la memoria histórica siempre da lugar a una lectura concreta de la historia. Por ello, es importante deconstruir el discurso hegemónico e incluir distintas narrativas desde la perspectiva de la alteridad. En el proyecto REWIND, que cuenta con el apoyo de las Acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, se estudiará la construcción de discursos en torno al patrimonio cultural europeo, centrándose en la literatura de viajes escrita por mujeres latinoamericanas de principios del siglo XX. De este modo, las mujeres no europeas, comprometidas con los movimientos feministas y el mestizaje, se convierten en agentes históricos y mediadores culturales que contrarrestan un discurso histórico eurocéntrico y patriarcal. El equipo de REWIND utilizará una metodología interdisciplinaria que combina herramientas geoespaciales y análisis lingüístico de corpus con enfoques decoloniales de género. Su objetivo es proteger y transferir un legado cultural que refleje las memorias y subjetividades de una sociedad diversa.
Objetivo
Cultural heritage is a sociocultural discursive construction, embedded in power relationships, which tends towards the selective preservation of historical memory and the support of a particular reading of History. However, History is multivocal and to achieve egalitarian societies where identity diversity is respected, it is necessary to deconstruct the hegemonic historical discourse including different narratives from the perspective of otherness. REWIND proposes to study how historical discourses around European Cultural Heritage (ECH) have been constructed using travel literature written by Latin American women authors from the early 20th century. As such, non-European women, committed to feminist movements and who claimed miscegenation, become historical agents and cultural mediators that counteract a Eurocentric and patriarchal historical discourse. Thus, it is not about adding women’s testimony, but about rereading historical narratives about heritage in order to protect and transfer a cultural legacy that reflects the memories and subjectivities of a diverse society.
REWIND is based on Foucault’s theories of “discursive formations”, since it analyses the elements of the ECH that authors highlight in their travels and descriptions from both the physical and the emotional point of view. Firstly, using Digital Humanities approaches based on Geographic Information Systems, the project will identify and locate ECH items. Secondly, REWIND will apply sentiment analysis techniques to recognise the impressions that ECH provokes in women travellers. And, finally, the information offered by travel guides and official documentation of cultural institutions will be contrasted with the data of travel literature applying semantic technologies and the decolonial gender theory. So, through this innovative methodology, REWIND will give voice to a silenced testimony, recovering part of the collective memory and offering new ways of interacting with the past in the present.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-AG-UN - HORIZON Unit GrantCoordinador
1099 085 Lisboa
Portugal