Producing commons through intermedial Narratives: embodied struggles of women in Chile and Colombia

Abstract

ABSTRACT In this article we reflect, based on an investigation of heterogeneous struggles embodied by women in Valparaíso-Chile and Medellín-Colombia, on the contribution of intermediality to the process of creation of common knowledge carried out by the Narrative Productions Methodology, referred to as NPM. NPM consists in the production of Narratives that give an account of a phenomenon, which are then elaborated collaboratively between researchers and participants and made available to their communities and the concerned public. Intermediality reinforces the NPM’s process of production of common knowledge by combining repertoires of collective creation from heterogeneous elements -photographs, videos, illustrations, collage, among others- produced by the research participants and the communities involved in the processes of struggle. From a perspective situated in Latin American territories, we analyze how NPM generates common knowledge and how intermediality enables us to link the different ways of knowing and expressing of those communities that participate in the research for the Narratives.