The discursive environment of Uribe’s Law: the relation between knowledge, power and the institutional character of the ideology

Abstract

With the reactivation of the account of material progress over the five-year period of the Agreement (Concordia), in the context of a stately [bourgeois] social order seemingly challenged by a political visibility acquiring technical and practical understanding set against the traditional hegemony of grammatical and speculative understanding, is perceived, from the discursive and historic environment of the Law of Uribe, the functionality of the ideology, especially in the interior of religious and educational institutions, in their role configured through imaginary relations that subscribe to dominating and being dominated by the material conditions of existence (Althusser), and as a source of activation of the subjective appropriation of the factors of domination from the subordinate sectors, from the reproductive efficiency of the Church and School at the behest of their symbolic force (Bourdieu-Passeron).

In consequence, the imperative of the elite class in terms of preservation or access to political and economic domination is analyzed in Colombia and Nariño in the period indicated. Also, the importance interposed by alterations of the relations between knowledge and power set against strong inertial resistance instituted in the collective consciousness are examined.

The present work is classified as an Article of Reflection, produced from processes of investigation generated around the need to examine the relationships stirred up among the Church, the Government and Educational institutions, particularly the University of Nariño, in the interior of the department of Nariño and, specifically, during the first government of Julián Bucheli (1904-1909). Methodologically, this article is part of an historic-hermeneutic focus, brought up to date from budgets taken up from a hermeneutic critique.