Program
Anthropology
College
Arts and Sciences
Student Level
Doctoral
Start Date
7-11-2018 3:00 PM
End Date
7-11-2018 4:00 PM
Abstract
Innovative community driven spatial practices are integral to sustaining long lasting peace amidst post-peace-accords times and the continued structural genocide of Afro-Colombians and indigenous communities in Buenaventura, Colombia. This paper illuminates the case of multiple transformative spaces --the Humanitarian Space Puente Nayero and the Comunal Port Punta Icaco in the city of Buenaventura, the rural interethnic humanitarian and biodiversity space of La Esperanza and the Paro Cívico struggle in the district of Buenaventura-- as examples of the creative power of citizens and of the transformative production of spaces of peace that resist local and global violent development and urbanization processes. Through ethnographic evidence (participant observation and interviews), this paper explores the contrasting visions of peace held by the national government and the economic elites with visions of peace held by the inhabitants of Buenaventura while highlighting the contradictions in which peace activism and structural violence coexist and can actually result in social conflict and intensification of violence.
The spatialization of peace amidst militarization and development in Buenaventura, Colombia.
Innovative community driven spatial practices are integral to sustaining long lasting peace amidst post-peace-accords times and the continued structural genocide of Afro-Colombians and indigenous communities in Buenaventura, Colombia. This paper illuminates the case of multiple transformative spaces --the Humanitarian Space Puente Nayero and the Comunal Port Punta Icaco in the city of Buenaventura, the rural interethnic humanitarian and biodiversity space of La Esperanza and the Paro Cívico struggle in the district of Buenaventura-- as examples of the creative power of citizens and of the transformative production of spaces of peace that resist local and global violent development and urbanization processes. Through ethnographic evidence (participant observation and interviews), this paper explores the contrasting visions of peace held by the national government and the economic elites with visions of peace held by the inhabitants of Buenaventura while highlighting the contradictions in which peace activism and structural violence coexist and can actually result in social conflict and intensification of violence.
