Citizenship at the Boundaries. Participative Photography

• Main Author: Edwin Alfredo Cubillos Rodríguez
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2012-08-01
• Series: Trabajo Social
• Subjects: ciudadanías en el límite; construcción de ciudadanías; contextos de exclusión; violencia sociopolítica; fotografía participativa; tácticas de resistencia
• Online Access: http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/tsocial/article/view/37254

The article discusses the practices of participative photography in the construction of child and adolescent citizenship in contexts of exclusion and sociopolitical violence in urban peripheries. On the basis of the community project, Shooting Cameras, in Cazucá, it argues that in contexts of non-citizenship and community breakdown, characterized by the restriction of democratic action and of the constitution of civil societies, it is possible for daily citizenship practices to emerge through photography. In this context, boys, girls, and teenagers become cultural agents who interpellate traditional forms of participation, thus contributing elements for the configuration of a new subject of citizenship.