Nuestra Orilla is an eight-episode audio series that tells the story of the lower Atrato, a region in the northern Colombian Department of Chocó, from the perspectives of its inhabitants and through the life story of its narrator: Ana Luisa Ramírez Flórez.
The story–told in the voices of the women and men from a community that is seldom listened to and is often represented as backward–illuminates the interconnections between past and present forms of violence and exclusion. It also examines the strategies of the protagonists of the story to combat injustice, and to live with dignity in their territory.
Nuestra Orilla challenges the location, temporalities, and methodologies used to tell the histories of violence in Colombia, in the hopes of producing counter-histories that can help repair the ways in which we relate to each other and to our surroundings. In order to amplify the reach of the voices of the lower Atrato and contribute through our story to the formation of critical citizenship among the next generation, our podcast is accompanied by lesson plans available to teachers whose classroom projects resonate with them.
We are a team that brings together and honors different experiences, knowledge, and skills under the premise that stories are powerful: they can produce and perpetuate social relations of exclusion, but they can also challenge them and contribute to the creation of alternative futures of social justice.
This podcast, together with its accompanying curriculum and website, are the product of a collaborative research and creation process carried out by:
Executive Producer: Catalina Muñoz Rojas
Script writing: Daniel Ruiz-Serna
Research: Daniel Ruiz-Serna and Catalina Muñoz Rojas
Editor: Andrea Díaz Cardona
Host: Ana Luisa Ramírez Flórez
Field Production: Jenry Serna Córdoba and Ana Luisa Ramírez Flórez
Sound design and mixing: Paula Peña
Original music: IndianSommer
Art Director: Seluna Fernandez
Web Designer: Seluna Fernandez
Web Design Assistant: Paula Cano
Illustrator: Miguel Sánchez
Curriculum design: Helga Moreno Collantes, Fernando Gálvez Rodríguez and Catalina Muñoz Rojas
Sara Rubio Botero
Valeria Borrero Ramos
Laura Hernández Vargas
Alejandra Kerguelén
Claudia Leal. Department of History and Geography, Universidad de los Andes.
Nancy Palacios Mena. School of Education, Universidad de los Andes.
Concepción Flórez Raga
Manuel Ramírez Ramírez
Secundina Correa Pineda
Orfelina Palacio Palacio
Jenry Serna Córdoba
Angelina Baniama
Amancio Valoyes
Rosa Ramírez Flórez
María Marlenis Moreno
Gildardo Ramírez Arias
José Manuel Ramírez Flórez
Luis Octavio Martínez Córdoba
Desis Martina Ibarguen Rodríguez
Claribet Patricia Córdoba Palacios
Jesucita Martínez Córdoba
Jesucita Martínez Córdoba
Luis Octavio Martínez Córdoba
Ernesto Ramírez Flórez
Emilson Palacios Moreno
Sebastián Mena
María Eleuteria Perea
María Eleuteria Perea Ramírez
Ana Rosa Díaz Díaz
Luis Fernando Palacios Ramírez
Luz Mary Mosquera Martínez
Carlos Mario Mena
Paolo Vignolo
Edgar Alberto Muñoz Vargas
Mauricio Díaz
Atahualpa Americe
Rafael Abuchaibe
Andrea Díaz Cardona
Mónica Solís Vergara
Graciela Zúñiga Larrahondo
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