The creative economy and the etnic-maroon’s field: The Kalunga case

Abstract

The attitude and practices of each actor of the ethnic-maroon field generate possibilities and institutional constraints that guide the senses of the residents of the Kalunga community, based upon the will of their respective habitus that have been formed historically, but circumvented by the knowledge accessed throughout the ontogenetic development. It is these networks of interdependence that will be analyzed below in order to understand how knowledge is acquired and settled in an environment of struggles between guidelines that either aim to satisfy the rationalist and interested markets’ demands of the liberal mold, generating false recognition in a formalistic perspective of equality, or that seek to enhance the particularity of these groups in an attempt to generate recognition and autonomy of their identity, in a communitarian perspective of multiculturalism, which supports the creative economy. The struggles between these two approaches bring challenges to the management of this emergent sector, which will be analyzed bellow.

Key words: creative economy, Kalunga identity, recognition.