Frightening the Victors: Practices of Resistance and Monuments of Barbarism

Abstract

This text derives from two problematic issues: the removal of monuments honoring figures linked to the colonization process and the movements of indigenous peoples against the attempt to institute the Temporal Milestone. This paper aims to analyze both movements as forms of resistance to coloniality and whiteness that have been undertaken in the present and to tense the space of Social Psychology as a field of production of knowledge and practices. As a methodological strategy, we gathered under the rubric of urban narratives of violence, the documents, reports, and other materialities present in the everyday life of cities that are related to the theme discussed here. We base the analysis of the materialities on the studies of authors who discuss the political and social conjuncture of life management in the Global South, of spaces, and the production of subjectivities, especially from the analysis of the effects of whiteness, structural racism, and the cult of violence in the production of such modes of life management.