Intelectuales e intermediarios: el conflicto entre Fals Borda y la Fundación Caribe

This research takes a relatively well-known episode of collaboration and conflict between a prestigious intellectual (Orlando Fals Borda) and a group of local intellectuals (Fundación Caribe), within the framework of the growing radicalization of the Colombian peasant movement in the early 1970s, especially on the Atlantic Coast. From the network analysis applied to interviews carried out in other investigations and the chapters on the episode of the fourth volume of Historia Doble de la Costa, I seek to understand the causes that led to the breakdown of collaboration between these intellectuals. The research reconstructs the weakly institutionalized social environment in which this conflict was inscribed, identifying the structural positions of those involved. A cause of conflict is then observed that is not addressed by the literature of intellectuals who come together and separate: the coexistence between two different types of intermediary intellectuals. The article analyzes the actions of both parties based on these antagonistic positions. These actions refer to the type of mediation carried out and the resources that each one mobilizes in their confrontation. Finally, the potentialities and complementarities of network analysis with respect to the field analysis are discussed in investigations that address disputes between intellectuals or that question themselves about their mediating nature in heterogeneous and unevenly institutionalized social environments.

• Autores: Urrea Castellanos, Juan Felipe
• Fecha de publicación: 2021
• Institución: Universidad de los Andes
• Repositorio: Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/50848
• Acceso en línea: http://hdl.handle.net/1992/50848
• Palabra clave: Movimientos campesinos; Intelectuales; Fals Borda, Orlando; Costa Atlántica (Colombia); Sociología
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/