Indigenous Women’s Alliance in the City: Agency and Political Participation through Audiovisual Creation

Abstract

In this article, I examine the emergence of the Indigenous Women’s Alliance in the
City (IWAC) and its audiovisual creations. This group of women from other regions
of the country migrate to Bogota due to the armed conflict or searching for better
opportunities. From an audiovisual training initiative in 2015, these women find a
scenario to express various situations of discrimination, inequality, and social and
political exclusion. Likewise, this creative process activates individual confidence
and collective articulation to achieve greater possibilities of political incidence and
thus improve their quality of life. From a transdisciplinary perspective, combined
with the application of ethnographic and audiovisual methods, I analyze three audiovisual productions and the narratives of their own experiences. In this way, I highlight the connections between audiovisual language and Amerindian orality that have allowed them to transform adverse situations and create their self-representations.