TY - JOUR
T1 - Territories of peace
T2 - alter-territorialities in Colombia’s San José de Apartadó Peace Community
AU - Courtheyn, Christopher
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/11/10
Y1 - 2018/11/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Colombia
KW - land grabbing
KW - peace
KW - peasants
KW - social movements
KW - Territory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85019625735&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2017.1312353
U2 - 10.1080/03066150.2017.1312353
DO - 10.1080/03066150.2017.1312353
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85019625735
SN - 0306-6150
VL - 45
SP - 1432
EP - 1459
JO - Journal of Peasant Studies
JF - Journal of Peasant Studies
IS - 7
ER -