¡A formalizar!: disputas de lo campesino en el Alto Cauca

This article analyzes what we call a third scenario of resistance and adaptation, which can take shape when a public land policy is implemented. In particular, it examines the encounter between the Program for the Formalization of Rural Property (PFPR), designed and structured by the Colombian centr...

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Main Authors: Natalia Abril-Bonilla, María Camila Jiménez Nicholls, Luisa Fernanda Uribe Larrota
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Language:English
Published: Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) 2020-07-01
Series:Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
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Online Access:https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/full/10.7440/antipoda40.2020.04
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Luisa Fernanda Uribe Larrota
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description This article analyzes what we call a third scenario of resistance and adaptation, which can take shape when a public land policy is implemented. In particular, it examines the encounter between the Program for the Formalization of Rural Property (PFPR), designed and structured by the Colombian central government, and the political and identity struggles of the communities of black and/or Afro-descendant peasants organized in the Upper Cauca, one of the areas where the program was implemented. We used a qualitative methodology that included a review of public policy documents, as well as field work conducted over the course of three visits to Santander de Quilichao, Buenos Aires and Jamundí, which comprised interviews, focus groups, and a survey. We concluded that: 1) formalization policies must also be understood from the political and cultural dimensions of the territories they are intended to regulate; 2) public policies are reinterpreted and resignified both by those who implement them and by the communities they are intended for. In this case, the latter contest the normative notions contained in the policy regarding the “peasantry.” and 3) the political stakes of the region’s peasantry are related, on the one hand, to territorial identity struggles for access to land and productive resources and, on the other, to the fact that the immeasurable visions of territory do not exist among rural communities, but rather between them and the neoliberal political project. The singularity of this work lies in the fact that it resumes the post-colonial theories on hybridization, to reveal the scenario that emerges in the Upper Cauca and its potential to renew/change the relations and practices concerning the public policy of formalization in the territory.
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spelling doaj.art-b2faeac003f94a21a4e95c79a369e8eb2022-12-21T18:18:56ZengUniversidad de los Andes (Bogotá)Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología1900-54072011-42732020-07-01407910210.7440/antipoda40.2020.04¡A formalizar!: disputas de lo campesino en el Alto CaucaNatalia Abril-Bonilla0María Camila Jiménez Nicholls1Luisa Fernanda Uribe Larrota2Observatorio de Restitución y Regulación de Derechos de Propiedad AgrariaObservatorio de Restitución y Regulación de Derechos de Propiedad AgrariaObservatorio de Restitución y Regulación de Derechos de Propiedad AgrariaThis article analyzes what we call a third scenario of resistance and adaptation, which can take shape when a public land policy is implemented. In particular, it examines the encounter between the Program for the Formalization of Rural Property (PFPR), designed and structured by the Colombian central government, and the political and identity struggles of the communities of black and/or Afro-descendant peasants organized in the Upper Cauca, one of the areas where the program was implemented. We used a qualitative methodology that included a review of public policy documents, as well as field work conducted over the course of three visits to Santander de Quilichao, Buenos Aires and Jamundí, which comprised interviews, focus groups, and a survey. We concluded that: 1) formalization policies must also be understood from the political and cultural dimensions of the territories they are intended to regulate; 2) public policies are reinterpreted and resignified both by those who implement them and by the communities they are intended for. In this case, the latter contest the normative notions contained in the policy regarding the “peasantry.” and 3) the political stakes of the region’s peasantry are related, on the one hand, to territorial identity struggles for access to land and productive resources and, on the other, to the fact that the immeasurable visions of territory do not exist among rural communities, but rather between them and the neoliberal political project. The singularity of this work lies in the fact that it resumes the post-colonial theories on hybridization, to reveal the scenario that emerges in the Upper Cauca and its potential to renew/change the relations and practices concerning the public policy of formalization in the territory.https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/full/10.7440/antipoda40.2020.04hybridizationland titlingneoliberalismpeasantspublic policyupper cauca
spellingShingle Natalia Abril-Bonilla
María Camila Jiménez Nicholls
Luisa Fernanda Uribe Larrota
¡A formalizar!: disputas de lo campesino en el Alto Cauca
Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
hybridization
land titling
neoliberalism
peasants
public policy
upper cauca
title ¡A formalizar!: disputas de lo campesino en el Alto Cauca
title_full ¡A formalizar!: disputas de lo campesino en el Alto Cauca
title_fullStr ¡A formalizar!: disputas de lo campesino en el Alto Cauca
title_full_unstemmed ¡A formalizar!: disputas de lo campesino en el Alto Cauca
title_short ¡A formalizar!: disputas de lo campesino en el Alto Cauca
title_sort a formalizar disputas de lo campesino en el alto cauca
topic hybridization
land titling
neoliberalism
peasants
public policy
upper cauca
url https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/full/10.7440/antipoda40.2020.04
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