Para una antropología de los sueños humildes. Elementos para trascender el presente etnográfico

Abstract

In the socio-anthropological literature on the social change linked to the migration of Mexican indigenous populations, first country-city and then international, a kind of gray area is perceived, in which the linearity of the process seems to be decoupled. In particular, I refer to the contrasting narratives that at one pole have the indigenous atavistic and apathetic to change, presented by the indigenous ethnographies of the last century; and, on the other, the indigenous person who in contemporary anthropologies appears as appealing to novelty, consumption, overcoming poverty, educational improvement and everything involved in the search for well-being. In this paper, I propose that an alternative to investigate this gray area is to pay attention to the temporal substrates involved in said changes, to the ways in which indigenous communities manage to articulate the old and the new unevenly and discontinuously in the construction of their contemporaneities and , above all, to the multiple ways in which the search for ways to earn a living linked to constant mobility, were awakening humble aspirations and dreams among migrant workers and their communities that, committed to these images of the future, foreshadowed and foreshadowed the to come in your present practice.

Futuros em disputa: abordagens teórico-metodológicas sobre o porvir nas periferias e no Sul global – introdução

“…Esses novos futuros podem ou não ter uma conexão direta com os passados que os precederam, mas podem explodir de qualquer presente e, desse modo, exigir novas conexões temporais (Ringel 2018), novas formas de tecer o tempo e articular o presente ao passado, possibilitando o surgimento de novas histórias e novos futuros históricos (Boldizsár e Tamm 2021). Essas emergências obrigam a pensar futuros plurais e novos futuros utópicos (Harms 2022), nos quais se encontram compromissos e projetos coletivos, grandes razões e sonhos humildes (Godinho 2023;Contreras 2021), esperança militante e formas íntimas de ativismo, para além do diagnóstico presentista e do colapso paralisante das sombras do futuro no presente.…”