Crónica periodística como medio de promoción y preservación del patrimonio cultural de la ciudad de Barrancabermeja

Abstract

In Barrancabermeja there are places that struggle to maintain the last vestiges of a forgotten history, evident in the desolation and abandonment. The faces of its very diverse inhabitants who have come from elsewhere, attracted by the black gold in search of possibilities, brings together customs in a territory that is maintained according to the collective imagination, thanks only to the dynamics of the oil business. This perspective as brought together thousands of people and has become the hope of many, but it has also unleashed greed, intolerance and resignation. The district has now ventured into the challenge of finding new fabrics that unite efforts for economic progress, without considering the need to add to these actions the work from the culture that mobilizes for joint bets for a common goal. Thus, from this proposal, with the aim of contributing to the promotion of the recognition of elements that constitute the historical and cultural heritage of the city, together with the interest awakened by the chronicles as a type of text that enables objective narratives but with a clear appeal function from the historical, the sensitive, the referential and the didactic, the objective is the construction of a collection of journalistic chronicles that allow the promotion and preservation of the cultural heritage of Barrancabermeja and is broken down into four specific objectives that set the methodological guidelines. In accordance with the proposal and the research intentions, the methodological approach is oriented towards the qualitative, by working with experimental sources of information from the inhabitants and those who know the history and culture of the district, while with regard to the type of research, the ethnographic study is chosen because it will delve into the understanding and recognition of cultural diversity as a cohesive element and its strengthening by means of innovative narratives that promise to enliven the sense of belonging.