colombia

(Dis)covering the Nukaks. Cartographies of Journalistic Accounts of Alterity in Colombia, 1988-2003

Álvaro Andrés Santoyo, Fundación Erigaie, Colombia

Tags: alterity regimes, colombia, discourse analysis, media representations, Nukak people, peoples in initial contact

Human Expedition, on the Rears of “Hidden Colombia”: Genetic Diversity, Scientific Arrogance, and Nation Imaginaries

Eduardo Restrepo, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile

Tags: colombia, genetic diversity, Human Expedition, national imaginaries, population genetics, scientific arrogance

Dilemmas of Multicultural Acknowledgement in the Afro-Caribbean 

Inge Helena Valencia P., Universidad Icesi, Colombia

Tags: Caribbean, colombia, creolization, ethnicity, multiculturalism

Extractivism and territorial dispossession in rural Colombia: a decolonial commitment to Campesinas’ politics of place

Laura Rodríguez Castro, Deakin University, Australia

Tags: colombia, Decolonial feminisms, disposession, extractivism, Latin America, place, rurality

The Workshop of Marxism in Colombia

Javier Calderón Castillo, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Tags: colombia, Communism, Liberation, Marx, New Left

Return in Migration Flows. Spatial Configuration and Migration Selectiveness in the Department of Atlántico (Colombia)

Alex Paulsen E., Universidad Bernardo O´Higgins

Tags: colombia, migratory flows, return, scales, selectiveness

Receiving the Armadillo’s Song: Oneiric Knowledge Transmission Between an Armadillo and a Wise Woman in Sokorpa, Yukpa Territory in Northern Colombia

Anne Goletz, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Deutschland

Tags: anthropology of dreaming; animal-human relation, colombia, knowledge transmission, Yukpa

Fluid geographies: Marine territorialisation and the scaling up of local aquatic epistemologies on the Pacific coast of Colombia

Paula Satizábal, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Victoria, Australia y Simon PJ Batterbury, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

Tags: Afro-descendants, colombia, conservation, geographies of the sea, marine protected areas

The roots of anarchism in Colombia and their relationship to liberalism

Diego Paredes Goicochea, IIGG/UBA/Conicet, Argentina

Tags: anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, colombia, labor movement, liberalism

Between Arachnid Deities and African Lions. A Contribution to the Afro-Americanist Debate in Colombia

Eduardo Restrepo, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill e Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH)

Tags: Afro-american approaches, afro-descendents, colombia, Methodology, theory

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

Ulrich Oslender, University of Glasgow, Scotland UK

Tags: black communities, colombia, geo-economic wars, geopolitics, globalisation, Pacific coast, Resistance, War in Iraq

Is a general theory about conservative parties possible?

Arturo Claudio Laguado Duca alaguado@yahoo.com Universidad Nacional de Colombia Abstract: This article suggests an alternative hypothesis for the interpretation of the construction of the Latin American Conservative Parties to the theories of the core constituencies. To this end, in the first part we will discuss three authors – Corblit, Gibson and Middelbrook – who sustain […]

Tags: Argentina, colombia, Conservative Parties, core constituencies, nation, nation-building

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 […]

Tags: black communities, colombia, constitutional amendments, FARC, Latin America, Law 70, political geography, territorial rights

Some quips on the cultural studies-anthropology couple in Colombia

Alhena Caicedo alhenauta@yahoo.com Universidad ICESI, Colombia Abstract: The relationship between anthropology and cultural studies has given rise to various academic debates dating back from several years ago. Not only “generational” conflicts have been brought to light fostered by the undisciplining social sciences. Furthermore, those debates have put on the table certain discussions on the situated character […]

Tags: anthropology, colombia, cultural studies, intellectual practices

Through the paths of community self-government: debates and experiences from Kamsá’s handcraft self-government

Abstract: Within the bounds of the territorial self-government instruments in force in Colombia, such as indigenous reserves, afro-descendant collective lands, and peasant reserve areas, this text makes their boundaries evident face to new spoils, like a symbolic one, in the field of handcraft. To do that, this work refers to the experience of Kamsá indigenous […]

Tags: colombia, craftspeople, handcraft self-government, Kamsá, symbolic spoilage, Territory self-government

Restraints and Prejudices Revolving Around Affective and Family Relationships among the Enslaved Community during Independence in Colombia

Abstract: This paper addresses the complex affective lives of enslaved population during the process of independence in Colombia. Generally speaking, many restraints imposed during the Colony continued to be in force, both in family ties among slaves and in affective relationships forged with white individuals. At the end of the day, scant were advances in […]

Tags: colombia, families, feelings, independence, Slaves