ETHNIC-CULTURAL IDENTIFICATION PROCESSES

ASSEMBLIES AND DISARTICULATIONS FROM THE TRAJECTORY OF YOUNG PEOPLE WHO BELONG TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

Abstract

The purpose of this work is the articulation of theoretical-conceptual perspectives on the ethnic-cultural identity, for the configuration of an approach that allows projecting methodological lines that make possible to expand the range of understanding of the current processes of identity construction, considering the subject who participates and the researcher-subject connection as the axis of the research process. For this, at first, conceptualizations about ethnic-cultural identity coined from the social sciences are put into dialogue, with the processes of subjectivation proposed from the critical poststructuralist, postcolonial, and narrative
perspectives; for in a second moment, detach methodological guidelines that consider the integration of elements: macrosocial and collective; of the narrative of the subjects; and the researcher-participant subject interaction. Finally, a proposal for the articulation and assembly of experiences and temporalities is argued, which opens spaces for the liberation of the potentiality of the subjects, and at the same time, for the disarticulation and neutralization of their determinations, moving from a conception of being and
substantial identity, of tracing and recurrences, that have prevailed during modernity, towards a conception of difference, of the multiple, that relieves intensity and power.