This thesis carries out an ethnographic con-textualization of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, a peasant farmer community in Urabá who declared themselves ‘neutral’ to the Colombian armed conflict in 1997. Two narratives understood as cultural practices with historical trajectories co-exist in their collective identity. These combine with other embodied practices of their daily life, such as their production of cocoa. The radical narrative is the frame according to which the Community interprets politics, constituted via the genealogy of a ‘rupture’ with the state and the creation of internal logic. The organic narrative is the way in which the Community perceives their relationship to the environment and to their organizational process, associated with a concept of alternative community. Both narratives mutually engender each other in a reciprocal circularity: chocolate and politics, a binary that represents a continuum, a symbiotic cultural con-text that molds the daily experience of the individual life of each member of the Community. Esta investigación hace una con-textualización etnográfica de la Comunidad de Paz de San José de Apartadó, una comunidad campesina en Urabá que se declaró ‘neutral’ ante el conflicto armado colombiano en 1997. En su identidad colectiva co-existen dos narrativas, entendidas como prácticas culturales con trayectorias históricas, que se mezclan con otras prácticas incorporadas de la cotidianidad, como su producción de cacao. La narrativa radical es el marco según el cual la Comunidad interpreta la política, constituido mediante la genealogía de una ‘ruptura’ con el Estado y la creación de una lógica interna. La narrativa orgánica es la forma en que la Comunidad percibe su relación con el medio ambiente y su proceso organizativo, asociada a un concepto de comunidad alternativa. Ambas narrativas se engendran mutuamente en una circularidad recíproca: chocolate y política, un binario que representa un continuo, un con-texto cultural simbiótico que atraviesa la experiencia cotidiana de la vida individual de cada miembro de la Comunidad.
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