Abstracts
Abstract
This is the story of how blue becomes an emergent, world making force of life in Walliceville, Belize. It is a story of attachments to scenes and objects of desire that sustain life in that village, about how blue takes material and imaginative form in the way it pulls some consistency of forces, sensibilities, and materialities into alignment to become the generative textures and rhythms of life in a place going crazy for tourists. My story tracks an eventfulness that erupts out of connections expressing qualities of blue that actualize worlds through a relay of encounters and are sensed through a sustained engagement with the seductive and recalcitrant materiality of that color. It also asks how ethnographic writing may be construed as an act of attuning that wavers from its trajectories to follow stories of blue encounters while attending to things that add to even if they never add up.
Résumé
Voici une histoire du bleu qui raconte comment cette couleur devient une force de vie émergente et créative du monde à Walliceville, Bélize. C’est une histoire d’attachement aux scènes et aux objets de désir qui nourrissent la vie dans ce village et concerne la façon dont le bleu prend des formes matérielles et imaginatives, tirant une certaine cohérence des forces, des sensibilités et des matérialités de la vie, en s’enlignant sur ses textures génératives et ses rythmes, dans un lieu qui raffole des touristes. Nous suivons ainsi de nombreux événements découlant de connexions diverses qui expriment les qualités du bleu et qui actualisent des mondes à travers un relais de rencontres vécues grâce à un engagement soutenu avec la matérialité récalcitrante et séductrice de cette couleur. Mon récit questionne également l’écriture ethnographique en examinant comment elle peut devenir un acte d’harmonisation du sens où, via diverses trajectoires narratives reliées à une expérience du bleu, il devient possible de suivre des histoires multiples qui ajoutent à notre compréhension bien qu’elles ne s’additionnent jamais dans un tout aux frontières déjà délimitées.
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