Subjetividades políticas desde la representación. Fotografía documental del campesinado en Colombia, 1965-1975

This research explores archaeologically the knowledge constituted on the peasantry in Colombia, in the period 1965-1975, taking as main empirical material a docu-mentary photographic archive. It will relate the photographs with the testimony of the photographers, the hemerographic archive of the time, Radio Sutatenza broadcasts, and the socio-historical reconstructions of the decade.

The central purpose is to link the archive, its conditions, its future, means and definitions, with the constitution of political subjectivities. Subjectivities are understood as processes that, by referring to symbolic universes socially shared, endow the subject with a cultural language that then he internalizes. It will decipher, through the visible and the hidden of the photographic representations, the possible statements that configure the political subjectivities of the peasantry in Colombia. It will see how the discourses, otherwise contradictory, serve as projects of homogenization of peasant culture taking place in the sphere of heterogeneity: peasants marked by differences among themselves, multiplicity of subjectivities politically involved in the processes inscribed within the agrarian reform.