black communities

“Free Blacks,” Black, and Afro-Colombian People in the (Colombian) Chocó Region

William Villa, Investigador independiente, Colombia

“Defending the River to Defend Ourselves” —The Fights of Black People Against Diverting the Ovejas River in the Northern Region of Colombian Cauca Department

Germán Moriones, Universidad Estadual de Campinas, Brasil

All Violences: Social Conversations on Conflict in the Cauca Pacific Coast

Carlos Enrique Osorio Garcés y Tulio Andrés Clavijo Gallego, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia

From Peasant Settlers to Black Communities, from Guerrilla Regulation to State Regulation

Claudia Quijano Mejía, Universidad Industrial de Santander

Afro Colombian studies: a balance of an heterogeneous field

Pedro J. Velandia, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
Eduardo Restrepo, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.

Building Counterpowers to New Geo-Economic Wars. Ways towards Globalizing Resistance

Ulrich Oslender, University of Glasgow, Scotland UK

Overlapping territorialities, sovereignty in dispute: empirical lessons from Latin America

John Agnew jagnew@geog.ucla.edu University of California, UCLA, USA Ulrich Oslender Ulrich.Oslender@ges.gla.ac.uk Florida International University, USA Abstract: Recent debates in political geography have questioned the Nation-state idealized sovereignty as rigidly linked to the notion of a transparent territoriality, clearly marked in space by stablished borders. Sovereignty has no need to assume this particular form. This paper […]

Of failure and frustration in field work —how to assume the ethics of representation in participatory research

Abstract: Collaborative research is back on the agenda these days. It has certainly become more accepted in mainstream academia than back in the 1970s, when Orlando Fals Borda and others developed what came to be known as Participatory Action-Research (PAR). Research councils are increasingly interested in funding collaborative research proposals, seemingly willing to listen to […]