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The Geographies of Social Movements – Afro–Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century

Autor Ulrich Oslender
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 mar 2016
In "The Geographies of Social Movements" Ulrich Oslender proposes a critical place perspective to examine the activism of black communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast region. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in and around the town of Guapi, Oslender examines how the work of local community councils, which have organized around newly granted ethnic and land rights since the early 1990s, is anchored to space and place. Exploring how residents' social relationships are entangled with the region's rivers, streams, swamps, rain, and tides, Oslender argues that this "aquatic space" his conceptualization of the mutually constitutive relationships between people and their rain forest environment provides a local epistemology that has shaped the political process. Oslender demonstrates that social mobilization among Colombia's Pacific Coast black communities is best understood as emerging out of their place-based identity and environmental imaginaries. He argues that the critical place perspective proposed accounts more fully for the multiple, multiscalar, rooted, and networked experiences within social movements."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822361046
ISBN-10: 0822361043
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 158 x 237 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century


Cuprins

List of Abbreviations vii

Acknowledgments xi

Prologue. Black Communities in Colombia and the Constitution of 1991 1

Introduction. The Geographies of Social Movements 7

1. Toward a Critical Place Perspective on Social Movements 25

Interlude. Meeting Don Agapito: Reflections on Fieldwork 36

2. Mapping Meandering Poetics and an Aquatic Sense of Place: Oral Tradition as Hidden Transcript of Resistance 46

3. Historical Geographies of Resistance and Convivencia in the Pacific Lowlands 92

4. Mobilizing the Aquatic Space: The Forming of Community Councils 135

5. Ideals, Practices, and Leadership of the Community Councils 159

Epilogue 205

Notes 221

Glossary 251

References 255

Index 277

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