Las consultas populares en Colombia: empoderamiento, reacción y resistencia
Objective/context: This article reconstructs the history of popular consultations against extractive activities in Colombia. It aims to illustrate how constitutional law affects the repertoires of democratic participation available to social movements and resistances. Methodology: The article descri...
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Universidad de los Andes
2023-04-01
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| author | Nicolás Figueroa García-Herreros |
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| description | Objective/context: This article reconstructs the history of popular consultations against extractive activities in Colombia. It aims to illustrate how constitutional law affects the repertoires of democratic participation available to social movements and resistances. Methodology: The article describes and critical ly analyzes how Colombian constitutional law has approached the use of popular consultations against extractive activities. This analysis focuses on three moments: citizen empowerment, institutional reaction, and informal resistance. Conclusions: The history of popular consultations in Colombia shows three types of relationship between constitutional law and the democratic participation of social movements and resistances: it can function as an instrument for the political empowerment of the citizenry, as an obstacle that contains democratic participation and contributes to political and social exclusion, or as a referent that guides informal resistance practices in the face of the closure of formal participation mechanisms by state institutions. Originality: This article contributes to a more comprehensive description of the uses of popular consultations in Colombia and how constitutional law affects the participation repertoires of social movements and resistances opposed to extractive activities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f7c94621faeb47acace4eb521cb3eb712023-05-18T15:05:09ZengUniversidad de los AndesColombia Internacional0121-56121900-60042023-04-01114396410.7440/colombiaint114.2023.02Las consultas populares en Colombia: empoderamiento, reacción y resistenciaNicolás Figueroa García-Herreros0Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Objective/context: This article reconstructs the history of popular consultations against extractive activities in Colombia. It aims to illustrate how constitutional law affects the repertoires of democratic participation available to social movements and resistances. Methodology: The article describes and critical ly analyzes how Colombian constitutional law has approached the use of popular consultations against extractive activities. This analysis focuses on three moments: citizen empowerment, institutional reaction, and informal resistance. Conclusions: The history of popular consultations in Colombia shows three types of relationship between constitutional law and the democratic participation of social movements and resistances: it can function as an instrument for the political empowerment of the citizenry, as an obstacle that contains democratic participation and contributes to political and social exclusion, or as a referent that guides informal resistance practices in the face of the closure of formal participation mechanisms by state institutions. Originality: This article contributes to a more comprehensive description of the uses of popular consultations in Colombia and how constitutional law affects the participation repertoires of social movements and resistances opposed to extractive activities.https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/colombia-int/article/view/1013/8569colombiaconstitutional lawparticipatory democracypopular consultationssocial movementssocial resistancesocio-environmental conflicts |
| spellingShingle | Nicolás Figueroa García-Herreros Las consultas populares en Colombia: empoderamiento, reacción y resistencia Colombia Internacional colombia constitutional law participatory democracy popular consultations social movements social resistance socio-environmental conflicts |
| title | Las consultas populares en Colombia: empoderamiento, reacción y resistencia |
| title_full | Las consultas populares en Colombia: empoderamiento, reacción y resistencia |
| title_fullStr | Las consultas populares en Colombia: empoderamiento, reacción y resistencia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Las consultas populares en Colombia: empoderamiento, reacción y resistencia |
| title_short | Las consultas populares en Colombia: empoderamiento, reacción y resistencia |
| title_sort | las consultas populares en colombia empoderamiento reaccion y resistencia |
| topic | colombia constitutional law participatory democracy popular consultations social movements social resistance socio-environmental conflicts |
| url | https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/colombia-int/article/view/1013/8569 |
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