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NATIONALISM’S DISTORTION, REMEMBERING OUR CONNECTION TO LAND
Carmona Felipe, Itzamar
Carmona Felipe, Itzamar
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In this paper, I investigate my relationship to Mexican nationalism, how it has shaped my values and how I can lean into radical imagination to move beyond it. First, I familiarized myself with the history of the Mexican nation-state, and their usage of nationalism. Then I engage in interviews with family members and conversations with friends to gain an understanding of their individual relation to Mexican nationalism. These conversations allowed me to create a collective understanding of our relation to nationalism. Through these methods, I began to see the entangled web of nationalism, culture, people’s connection to land and belonging. This web causes a distorted relation between us and the land, us and each other. This distortion provides the fuel for nationalism to work, as it positions itself as the provider of human needs such as belonging and connection to land. Simultaneously, I engaged in methods that supported me in clarifying the current values I hold and which I want to live by. This, paired with a method in which I listened to the wind, supported me in leaning into different ways of understanding beyond the intellectual, allowing me to (re)begin to exercise my radical imagination.
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2024-01-01