Languages and Sociocultural Studies, Concentration Area: Cultural Studies,Universidad de los Andes (2013)

Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes (2013)

Introduction

Paola Adarve was born and raised in Colombia, South America. Her home country’s reality has driven her interest in social justice issues, which she has nurtured through studies and research related to anthropology, languages, cultural studies, and art. she has been involved in a wide range of activities, such as the active protection of minority groups, the critical analysis of sociocultural contexts, and research projects regarding the construction of diverse forms of social justice.

Biography

Paola Adarve was born and raised in Colombia, South America. Her home country’s reality has driven my interest for social justice issues, which she has nurtured through studies and research related to different disciplines such as anthropology, languages and cultural studies, and art. She has been involved in a wide range of activities, such as the active protection of minority groups, the critical analysis of sociocultural contexts, and research projects regarding the construction of diverse forms of social justice. Therefore, she has been involved in a wide range of activities, such as the active protection of minority groups, the critical analysis of sociocultural contexts, and research projects regarding the construction of diverse forms of social justice. Some of the research projects that she has developed often include artistic approaches, like photography or performances. This approach has also
informed some of her contributions to my community. In 2009, as the Activism Coordinator of the LGBT Participation Group at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, she developed an art-based campaign against homophobia. This campaign was diffused inside the campus at the end of the academic semester. Also, in 2013, a few colleagues and her organized V-day in Bogotá, Colombia, by performing a dance in a public plaza in their city.

Research

I am currently interested in exploring arts-based responses to violence. Specifically, I wish to look at the ways in which activist art might be a tool for repairing survivors of sexual violence – rape. This would entail re-thinking reparation processes by distancing ourselves from frames that shape how we conceive such processes, especially those frames emerging from transitional justice. Thinking about activist art as enabling new reparation possibilities also implies considering its power to displace social justice issues from the private sphere to the public sphere. This might enable the disruption of sexist and re-victimizing narratives that keep stories of rape in the realm of the intimate–veiling how sexual violence works-. In this way, activist art practices can potentially shift
present paradigms surrounding sexual violence.

Selected Publications

Adarve P., Los Nukak: conviviendo con Occidente*, OPCA, Bulletin 04, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá (2012)

*In English: The Nukak Maku: coexisting with the West

Paola Adarve was born and raised in Colombia, South America. Her home country’s reality has driven her interest in social justice issues, which she has nurtured through studies and research related to anthropology, languages, cultural studies, and art. She has been involved in a wide range of activities, such as the active protection of minority groups, the critical analysis of sociocultural contexts, and research projects regarding the construction of diverse forms of social justice.