Papers by Polina Golovátina-Mora
Qualitative inquiry, Feb 23, 2024
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), May 18, 2023
There is no one unique indigenous visual culture. It is as complex and hybrid as the land of an i... more There is no one unique indigenous visual culture. It is as complex and hybrid as the land of an indigenous community, both its present and historical version, as social relations of any community. This special issue is hybrid. It reproduces the established power relations with the format of presentation, the language of publication or their referential framework. But, also, we hope, it contributes to the ongoing process of decolonisation about different genres of visual representation-complement each other and intentionally or unintentionally transform the issue into the community of voices. They engage in the discussion with textual, visual, aesthetic and analytical forms of representation, bringing some questions to the surface and leaving others behind the stage. Together they remind the readers and selves that the process of decolonisation is not even close to be done.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), May 18, 2023
There is no one unique indigenous visual culture. It is as complex and hybrid as the land of an i... more There is no one unique indigenous visual culture. It is as complex and hybrid as the land of an indigenous community, both its present and historical version, as social relations of any community. This special issue is hybrid. It reproduces the established power relations with the format of presentation, the language of publication or their referential framework. But, also, we hope, it contributes to the ongoing process of decolonisation and deconstructs at least some of the colonial influences. The contributions that make this special issue-written and visual reflections about different genres of visual representation-complement each other and intentionally or unintentionally transform the issue into the community of voices. They engage in the discussion with textual, visual, aesthetic and analytical forms of representation, bringing some questions to the surface and leaving others behind the stage. Together they remind the readers and selves that the process of decolonisation is not even close to be done.
Environmental Science & Policy, Feb 1, 2023
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana eBooks, 2019
Builes Tobón, Carlos Alberto, García Marín, Maria Eulalia, Dasuky Quiceno, Samir Ahmed, Luna Ovie... more Builes Tobón, Carlos Alberto, García Marín, Maria Eulalia, Dasuky Quiceno, Samir Ahmed, Luna Oviedo, Yesenia, Vergara Tamayo, Esmeralda, Sierra Naranjo, Manuel, Roca Servat, Denisse & Golovátina-Mora, P. (2019). “Ecosofia en Pueblo Bello: memoria, restitución subjetiva y transformación social”, pp. 181-215. En Carlos Builes & Oscar Muñoz (compiladores). Gobierno, territorio y seguridad. Medellin: UPB, 2019.
Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, May 3, 2022
The article explores rhizomatic poetic practices of Medellín-based graffiti artist Señor Ok. His ... more The article explores rhizomatic poetic practices of Medellín-based graffiti artist Señor Ok. His work is the city revealed as a relational, multidimensional texture. It transforms striated urban space to smooth by bringing other meanings from the periphery to the surface and decentralizing the dominant image of the city. I look at his work as poetry as an entanglement of his relationship and his daily life in the city, in the country, in the broader world. I argue that as an assemblage that forms assemblages within the urban textures, his art becomes methodology for critical non-representational affective inquiry of urban spaces.
RUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
Changing Societies & Personalities
The article looks at some examples of the urban regeneration strategies and initiatives in Medell... more The article looks at some examples of the urban regeneration strategies and initiatives in Medellín, Colombia. Being part of the process of regeneration of the country after the decades of the armed conflict the initiatives transform the city at least by creating the discourse that facilitates the social change in the city. The ontological proposal of feminist more-than-humanism focusing on materiality of water, particularly its rhizomatic connectivity, allows rethinking the concept of the city and its regeneration as generation of the inclusive space that provides habitat and life for anyone who wants to live in, around, through, and with the city. The revised initiatives are symbolically divided into two groups: water plans of connection-fragmentation policy and traces of water—mostly grassroots connectivity in response to the dominating power structures. They are not uniform groups and are the products/processes of tension between opposite tendencies. Creative tension is works of...
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, 2019
KnE Social Sciences, 2020
This essay describes an academic experience that both authors shared during a research visit to R... more This essay describes an academic experience that both authors shared during a research visit to Russia in November 2018. The goal of this experience was to introduce participants (students and professors) to the notion of multimodal writing as an alternative to how we create texts in class. The essay first contextualizes the idea of “post-literacy” as part of a worldwide move to rethink literacy, especially in this century. The essay then conceptualizes the notion of multimodality as a feature of these “post-literacies” and contextualizes this concept within the practical experience as both authors undertook in a masterclass at a Russian institution. For the masterclass, the authors asked everybody to make videos using only one smartphone and any other resources they had right beside them. After sharing what the activity was about and what attendants did, the authors provide a final moment of reflexivity for others who may want to consider implementing multimodal texts in their cla...
Analecta Política, 2022
The article approaches the concept of structural violence by elaborating on the idea of fear as a... more The article approaches the concept of structural violence by elaborating on the idea of fear as an indicator of social or individual self-destruction. It argues that learning to read fear is an important skill for individuation and, therefore, a part of resistance to oppressive practices. Based on Tolstoy's political thought, the article draws attention to honesty, gratefulness, love, trust, creative act and responsibility as essential conditions for developing sensibility to read fear and the social structures. Likewise, the article looks at several popular series and literary pieces in each other's context as an existing intellectual or even social discourse with a special emphasis on the science fiction and fantasy genres in the context of spiritual anti-hierarchical thought. A distinction is made between organic fear-a natural emotion with a function of developing self-recognitio-and structural fear-a tool for manipulation and control over individuals employed by social institutions. The natural character of the emotion, in other words, the experience of fear common to every person, makes it a convenient mechanism of control over the Other. The article uses the findings to support the qualitative turn in the social studies and particularly the tendency towards the holistic or ecological approach to data selection and data interpretation.
The present book chapter presents and discusses the class experience of use of comics as a didact... more The present book chapter presents and discusses the class experience of use of comics as a didactic strategy for awakening the critical reflection skills among students of the department of graphic design. En Porfirio Cardona-Restrepo y Juan Carlos Echeverri-Álvarez (Eds). Estética y educación para pensar la paz. Medellín: Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, pp. 149-178. [ISBN 978-958-764-719-8].
Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies, Dec 20, 2021
The sensemaking mainly draws on the thought of Deleuze and Guattari and Karen Barad, with a metho... more The sensemaking mainly draws on the thought of Deleuze and Guattari and Karen Barad, with a methodology inspired by Donna Haraway's conceptualisation of speculative fabulation. The experience is defined as multispecies migration in the multiverse. The essay is an exploration of relations between different forms of memories and associations that they produce in their interaction under the conditions of the current pandemic, as well as between the agencies involved and created in these relations. This includes childhood memories, immediate memories, readings, conversations, imaginative work, dreams, and cinematic images that form the worldview of the author. The essay experiments with the Cet essai est un sensemaking autoethnographique fictif de l'expérience vécue pendant le long lockdown causé par la pandémie de CO-VID-19. Le sensemaking s'inspire principale
Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies/revue d'études interculturelle de l'image, 2021
Resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has been a massive obstacle to ICI treatment in... more Resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has been a massive obstacle to ICI treatment in metastatic urothelial carcinoma (MUC). Recently, increasing evidence indicates the clinical importance of the association between hypoxia and immune status in tumor patients. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the relationship between hypoxia and prognosis in metastatic urothelial carcinoma. Methods: Transcriptomic and clinical data from 348 MUC patients who underwent ICI treatment from a large phase 2 trial (IMvigor210) were investigated in this study. The cohort was randomly divided into two datasets, a training set (n 213) and a testing set (n 135). Data of hypoxia-related genes were downloaded from the molecular signatures database (MSigDB), and screened by univariate and multivariate Cox regression analysis to construct a prognosis-predictive model. The robustness of the model was evaluated in two melanoma cohorts. Furthermore, an external validation cohort, the bladder cancer cohort, from the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) database, was t used to explore the mechanism of gene mutation, immune cell infiltration, signaling pathway enrichment, and drug sensitivity. Results: We categorized patients as the high-or low-risk group using a four-gene hypoxia risk model which we constructed. It was found that patients with high-risk scores had significantly worse overall survival (OS) compared with those with low-risk scores. The prognostic model covers 0.71 of the area under the ROC curve in the training set and 0.59 in the testing set, which is better than the survival prediction of MUC patients using the clinical characteristics. Mutation analysis results showed that deletion mutations in RB1, TP53, TSC1 and KDM6A were correlated with hypoxic status. Immune cell infiltration analysis illustrated that the infiltration T cells, B cells, Treg cells, and macrophages was correlated with hypoxia. Functional enrichment analysis revealed that a hypoxic microenvironment activated inflammatory pathways, glucose metabolism pathways, and immune-related pathways. Conclusion: In this investigation, a four-gene hypoxia risk model was developed to evaluate the degree of hypoxia and prognosis of ICI treatment, which showed a promising
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Through our data collection, which includes observations, a survey and expert interviews, we are searching for the representations of ugly and beautiful in the daily life of the contemporary society of Medellín, Colombia. Our study is also describing all potential meanings and interpretations of ugliness and beauty in the overall urban social dynamics. Our goal is to challenge the traditional understandings of violence and its origins and mark sites for the possible and possible more profound changes.
Fairy tales, genre to which Harry Potter associates, possess an immense potential to portray a more critical view on social relations and how we see things. In this presentation, the authors will engage in a transmedia analysis of the series (through its books, movies, and the Pottermore website) to discuss three main questions of epistemology (including its social branch): What is knowledge? What can we know? And how do we know that?
In this paper, I will look at the use and meaning of both individual and collective memory in the series of the science fiction novels by Kir Bulychov. I will focus on three novels “Alice’s journey” (1974), “In one hundred years ago” (1978), and “The war with the liliputs”(1989) in the general context of his works and their acceptance. I propose that Bulychov’s works represent an interesting case of a play with not just time but memory that can expand our understanding of the meaning and use of memory forms and processes (forgetting and remembering), particularly of nostalgia. It is understood here rather as a healing mechanism of the pain of coming back home that has never existed and, so, is not exactly in the past, nor in the future, but in the imagination.
As Kir Bulychov mentioned in one of his interviews, he was not writing phantasy but history. This series of novels about a girl from the future that travels to the past creates a peculiar background for critical reflection on the present. He uses the sci-fi genre to show the relativity of time and of our memory of it. This paper is a reflection on the role of memory in the negotiation of the knowledge about ourselves and the society, and the role of imagination in it. Imagination is a creative process and that is why healing (Tolkien, Fromm). However, it is limited to the knowledge we possess. In a way it is a memory of it or a creative selective process of remembering.
Aunque en la literatura especial, el miedo es solo una forma de la familia de las emociones, tales como angustia, tremor, etc., lo que es más importante es afrontamiento (coping) (Lerner, 2009), su percepción y su uso o ¿Qué hacemos de la experiencia del miedo? Limitamos nuestro desarrollo o usamos los miedos para desafiar las fronteras.
Esta presentación es una reflexión sobre el significado y uso del miedo como una frontera mental o imaginada en contexto de las estructuras sociales contemporáneas por medio de análisis de las obras literarias y cinemáticas elegidas con énfasis particular en las distopías recientes (Juegos del Hambre y Divergente). Las distopias por su forma y contenido crean un laboratorio de la sociedad por medio de análisis de la naturaleza humana y por esto sirve perfectamente a los objetivos de la presentación.
Session abstract: The recent revival of the popularity of the monstrous, both in popular culture and the academic world, suggests that it carries a powerful signal of social changes. Since the monstrous is a broad category, this panel will focus on aesthetics as another increasingly popular research category and discuss the changing role of beauty and the social message of these changes. This panel will reflect on monsters’ potential as a theoretical approach to social processes, from an interdisciplinary perspective. The panel will address such questions as: 1. What set of aesthetic beliefs do vampires, zombies, serial killers and follow-up activities in social media represent? 2. What can these values tell us about society? 3. Is it an expression of modernity or consumerism? 4. Is romanticizing monstrosity a way to reconsider the norms or is it kitsch and a protective mechanism of the social system?
En la presentación analizaré varias narrativas de vampiros para explorar la pregunta de la naturaleza humana, que es una pregunta central en las narrativas distópicas según Fromm y en los problemas sociales que ellas representan.
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Entrega del resumen de la ponencia: 28 de febrero, 2017
English Call for Papers is at http://postmemoryworld.ug.edu.pl
Acuñado por Marianne Hirsch en los 1990s, el término Posmemoria ya entró en el discurso de varias disciplinas que buscan entender cómo la memoria define nuestra identidad y cómo articulamos y damos sentido a nuestro lugar en la sociedad y a nuestras relaciones con los demás. El término Posmemoria problematiza el concepto de memoria trayendo atención a los recuerdos, los cuales, a pesar de no ser exactamente propios, influyen en nuestras vidas y nuestra forma de ver el mundo.
En las ediciones anteriores del Congreso internacional de la memoria, las cuales han congregado a más de 400 académicos de todo el mundo, se han llevado discusiones en torno a la relación entre la memoria y la solidaridad ( "Solidaridad, Memoria e Identidad", 2012 y 2016), la memoria y los sueños ( "Sueños, fantasmas y recuerdos ", 2013), memoria y olvido ("Memoria: olvido y creación ", 2014), la memoria y la nostalgia (“Memoria, la melancolía y la nostalgia, 2015), así como la memoria y el trauma ("Memoria, trauma y recuperación", 2016). En este Congreso, el tema a tratar se concentra en el fenómeno de Posmemoria y en cómo la Posmemoria transforma el mundo contemporáneo y sus conflictos.
Estamos interesados en todos los aspectos de la Posmemoria: en su dimensión individual y colectiva, en el pasado y en el mundo de hoy y en su potencial para dirigir el futuro. Buscamos la respuesta a las siguientes preguntas: ¿De quién es la memoria de Posmemoria: de las generaciones, de las comunidades, de las naciones o de las familias? ¿Cómo se mantiene y se transmite? ¿Cuál es el papel de la imaginación en su creación? ¿Qué es lo que se recuerda y lo que se olvida? ¿Es siempre la memoria de la experiencia traumática? ¿Cómo podemos enseñarla y estudiarla?
La ciudad de Medellín, Colombia no ha sido elegida como el lugar para este Congreso por casualidad. Colombia es un país con un pasado turbulento que ha venido procesándolo exitosamente en su camino de recuperación. El Congreso quiere establecer y promover un diálogo entre los académicos, los países y los continentes, por lo tanto, invitando ponencias de diferente enfoque geográfico y cultural. Creemos que el dialogo de las diversas experiencias en un país en medio de un proceso de paz y el posconflicto puede ser de mucho valor para todos los participantes tanto como para los países que representan.
Nos gustaría explorar el fenómeno de la Posmemoria en sus múltiples manifestaciones: psicológica, social, histórica, cultural, filosófica, religiosa, económica y política, entre otras. Además, queremos dedicar la atención especial a la pregunta, ¿Cómo se representan estas manifestaciones en las prácticas artísticas en literatura, cine, teatro, baile o en artes visuales y plásticas? Por eso convocamos a los investigadores que representan diversas disciplinas como antropología, historia, psiquiatría, psicología, psicoanálisis, sociología, política, filosofía, economía, derecho, historia de la literatura, estudios de teatro, estudios de cine, diseño, gestión de proyectos, estudios de la memoria, estudios de la migración, estudios de la conciencia, estudios de sueño, de género, estudios poscoloniales, ciencias médicas y cognitivas y de los estudios urbanos a enviar sus trabajos.
Todas las formas de presentación son bienvenidas, incluyendo estudios de casos, investigaciones teóricas y argumentos orientados hacia los problemas o el análisis comparativo. Invitamos a participar a académicos tanto experimentados como aquellos iniciando sus carreras, así como a estudiantes universitarios de todos los niveles de formación, artistas u otras personas interesadas en el tema. También invitamos a al público en general a participar en la conferencia como asistentes.
Los temas sugeridos incluyen, pero no se limitan a:
I. Experiencias individuales:
• Posmemoria y trauma
• Posmemoria y la recuperación
• Posmemoria y la imaginación
• Posmemoria y sus artefactos
• Sueños de Posmemoria
• Memorias personales y Posmemoria
II. Experiencias colectivas
• Posmemoria y sus fuentes
• Posmemoria y la mitología
• Posmemoria de las generaciones
• Posmemoria y la exclusión social
• Posmemoria y la solidaridad
• Posmemoria y el territorio
III. El recuerdo y el olvido
• Posmemoria y el olvido esforzado
• Posmemoria y la memoria esforzada
• Enseñanza de Posmemoria
• Negociación de Posmemoria
• Estudios de Posmemoria
• El olvido / recuerdo para la recuperación
• Posmemoria y su propósito
• Posmemoria y la lealtad
IV. Representaciones
• Testimonios y recuerdos
• Géneros de Posmemoria
• Posmemoria en la literatura
• Posmemoria en el cine
• Posmemoria en el teatro
• Posmemoria en las artes visuales
• Creación de la experiencia
• Posmemoria y la planificación urbana
• Posmemoria y el arte urbano
• Posmemoria rural
• Posmemoria en la naturaleza
• El materialismo de Posmemoria
• Posmemoria no humana
V. Los sentimientos y las prácticas
• La tristeza de Posmemoria
• El temor a la Posmemoria
• Posmemoria y nostalgia
• Posmemoria y el dolor
• Posmemoria y el cansancio
• Posmemoria y la soledad
• Posmemoria y el cambio
• Posmemoria de estar
• Los rituales de Posmemoria
VI. Institucionalización
• Posmemoria y el estado-nación
• Posmemoria y la política de identidad
• Posmemoria e ideología
• Posmemoria y la religión
• Sistemas de Posmemoria y el castigo
• Posmemoria y el ejército
• Posmemoria y la escuela
• Posmemoria y museos
• Sitios de Posmemoria
• Ciudades de Posmemoria y su planeamiento
• Economía de Posmemoria
• Lenguaje de Posmemoria
VII. El mundo contemporáneo
• Posmemoria y poscomunismo
• Poscolonialismo, descolonización y Posmemoria
• Neoliberalismo y Posmemoria
• Posmemoria y la migración
• Posmemoria y la migración forzada
• Posmemoria y la globalización
• Posmemoria y el nacionalismo
• Nuevos medios de comunicación y Posmemoria
• Posmemoria y el progresismo ideológico
• Desastres naturales y Posmemoria
• Posmemoria y los conflictos armados
VII. Colombia de posmemoria: el proceso de paz
• Memoria y las generaciones
• Prácticas artísticas de la memoria
• Posibilidades de comparación: América Latina y Europa Central y de Este
• Perdón como la memoria
La fecha de entrega de los resúmenes de 300 palabras para la presentación de 20 minutos junto con una breve nota biográfica es el 28 de febrero, 2017. Por favor enviar las propuestas a los correos [email protected] y [email protected]. La confirmación de aceptación será enviada el 1 de marzo 2017.
Aunque el idioma oficial del congreso es inglés, para esta versión se aceptarán resúmenes y ponencias en español.
Lugar del congreso será la Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín, Colombia
La fecha del congreso: 27-28 de abril, 2017
Más información se encuentra en la página del congreso http://postmemoryworld.ug.edu.pl/
Fecha límite para la entrega de los resultados de la evaluación de resúmenes: 27 de junio 2014
Fecha límite para recepción de los textos completos de las ponencias: 3 de agosto 2014
Fecha límite para la aceptación de los textos completos con las correcciones: 18 de agosto 2014
Idiomas del Congreso: español, portugués, inglés
Los resúmenes no deben tener más de 250 palabras. Además de los resúmenes deben enviar el título de la ponencia, indicación de la mesa, y una reseña biográfica de máximo 150 palabras, que incluya el nombre completo de autor, título, posición,
institución, 2-3 publicaciones principales y sus intereses investigativos.
Las propuestas de las ponencias pueden ser enviadas al correo del Simposio:
[email protected]
co-authored with Johanna López Tobón, Valentina Largo Lara, Daniela Acosta Escobar , https://siciudadania.co/enterate/sabias-que/234-lanzamiento-del-libro-participacion-ciudadana-una-mirada-desde-el-trabajo-colaborativo-y-en-red
(Ch.13, pp. 241-260).
En Porfirio Cardona-Restrepo y Juan Carlos Echeverri-Álvarez (Eds). Estética y educación para pensar la paz. Medellín: Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, pp. 149-178. [ISBN 978-958-764-719-8].
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