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Territories of peace: alter-territorialities in Colombia’s San José de Apartadó Peace Community

Publication year
2018
Abstract

Scholars are increasingly re-theorizing territory beyond the nation- state given Indigenous and Afro-descendant groups’ demands for ‘territory’ as they confront land grabbing in Latin America. Yet alternative territorialities are not limited to such ethnic groups. Based on 16 months of ethnographic research between 2011 and 2016, I explore the relational territoriality produced by a peasant ‘peace community’ in San José de Apartadó, Colombia. By tracing the collective political subject produced by the Peace Community’s active production of peace through a set of spatial practices, places and values, which include massacre commemorations, food sovereignty initiatives and Indigenous– peasant solidarity networks, this contribution presents a conceptual framework for analyzing diverse territorial formations.

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The Journal of Peasant Studies, 45:7, 1432-1459