Between the Paternalistic and the Neoliberal State Dispossession and Resistance in Afro-descendant Communities of the Upper Cauca, Colombia

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作者
Velez-Torres, Irene [1 ]
Varela, Daniel [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Valle, Cali, Colombia
[2] Univ Nacl Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
关键词
Agro-industry; Extractivism; Mining; Afro-descendants; State; Colombia;
D O I
10.1177/0094582X14547515
中图分类号
K9 [地理];
学科分类号
0705 ;
摘要
The sugarcane agro-industry and large-scale mining have generated a profound change in traditional economic practices in the upper Cauca of Colombia to the detriment of the small-scale farmers and miners of the local Afro-descendant population. This has been accompanied by a consolidation of the centralized state since the neoliberal opening and a weakening of the old regional state supported by the paternalistic structure of the agricultural elites. Participative research with two community organizations with regard to the dispute over access to land and environmental assets reveals that the communities and their social organizations have responded to their racialized impoverishment by mobilization and the creation of alliances not only as a means of resistance but also as a strategy for the construction of their own alternative life plans. La agroindustria de cana de azucar y la mineria a gran escala han generado un cambio profundo en las practicas economicas tradicionales en el Cauca Alto de Colombia, en de-trimento los agricultores y los mineros de pequena escala de la poblacion afrodescendiente locales. Esto ha sido acompanado por una consolidacion del Estado centralizado desde la apertura neoliberal y un debilitamiento del viejo Estado regional apoyado por la estructura paternalista de las elites agricolas. La investigacion participativa con dos organizaciones de la comunidad con respecto a la disputa sobre el acceso a la tierra y los bienes medioambientales revela que las comunidades y sus organizaciones sociales han respondido a su empobrecimiento racializado por la movilizacion y la creacion de alianzas, no solo como medio de resistencia, pero tambien como una estrategia para la construccion de sus propios proyectos de vida alternativos.
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