Abstract
The act of walking represents an important (yet underexamined) element of political protest and collective action, as well as an increasingly common form of historical commemoration. In this article I examine the development of a series of "memory walks" by labor activists in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. I argue that these peripatetic practices constitute a particular spatial, kinesthetic, and sensorial form of historical and archival production. Along the way, I consider what these events reveal about postcolonial forms of archival production and the importance of historical praxis to the formation of political subjectivities.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 313-339 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Cultural Anthropology |
Volume | 26 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2011 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Anthropology
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Keywords
- Historical production
- Labor activism
- Social movements