Ana Marrugo Gómez
- PhD Student- Cultural
I am a sociocultural anthropologist interested in questions of political work and mobilization, social movements, justice, and urban spaces. My dissertation research is an ethnographic study of political mobilization in the wake of prolonged protests in Cali, Colombia, in 2021. I explore how people organized in the face of violent state repression of the protests and continued doing so in the following years. I focus on a group of relatives of victims of police violence, initially organized around a People’s Tribunal, and on women who cooked in the streets during the months of protests and continue doing so in focal points of pretests in its aftermath. My work shows how people in Cali confront the state’s repression and its attendant police brutality and inefficient justice system by doing justice through practices of collective mourning, memory-making, spatial transformation, and the sustaining of affective atmospheres that enable alternative forms of political community. Thus, I propose justice not as the result of making claims on the state but as the product of collective organizing and everyday practices of care and maintenance. Thus, I propose justice not as the result of making claims on the state but as the product of collective organizing.
Degrees and Education
M.A Public Anthropology, American University (2019)B.A Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes (2014)