Affilié chercheur
Julián Fernando Trujillo Amaya was part of the Quebec Node of the Colombian Truth Commission as an interviewer and collaborator in the compilation and processing of the testimonies of the victims in exile due to the Colombian conflict, and he actively participated as a postgraduate student of the Doctorate in Humanities from the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University in the Acts of Listening Laboratory (ALLab). Julián Trujillo is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philology at the School of Language Sciences at the Universidad del Valle, coordinator of the Diploma in Critical Reading and Argumentation, and member of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Quebec in Montreal. Julián Trujillo has been working on the compilation, organization, and investigation of testimonies of the Narco-World, semiotic coloniality and the violence that affects Colombian victims, immigrants, and displaced people from the Departments of Valle del Cauca, Antioquía and Cauca, especially the indigenous and Afro-descendant communities. Julián Trujillo is preparing a project on “Semiotic coloniality, symbolic violence, and narratives of the war on drugs in the communities affected by drug trafficking.” The objective of the research is to develop a critical interpretation on semiotic coloniality, and the « official discourse » on the war on drugs, which generates negative identities, distorts historical memory, and glorifies the actors of Narco-World in Colombia.
