Between Life and Death: Meanings of the Local Communities Facing the Cauca River in Colombia

Caucasia, municipality of Bajo Cauca Antioqueño in Colombia, expresses necropolitical and necrocapitalist dynamics that State and illegal actors deploy on the territory and specifically on the Cauca River. This action permeates the daily life and subjectivity of local communities in affective, terri...

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Authors: Pulido Varon, Heidi Smith, Durán Palacio, Nicolasa
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2024
Country:Perú
Institution:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repository:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/28126
Online Access:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/debatesensociologia/article/view/28126
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Territory
Meanings
Necropolitics
Necrocapitalism
Rio Cauca
Territorio
Significados
Necropolítica
Necrocapitalismo
Río Cauca
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Summary:Caucasia, municipality of Bajo Cauca Antioqueño in Colombia, expresses necropolitical and necrocapitalist dynamics that State and illegal actors deploy on the territory and specifically on the Cauca River. This action permeates the daily life and subjectivity of local communities in affective, territorial, identity and memory aspects, which are built in experiences and life trajectories in the territory. This text analyzes from a qualitative approach and social phenomenological method, which, from the experience of six participants, captures some meanings of this tributary. The field work considered interviews and accompaniment to their work in situ. Among the results, local meanings are highlighted, which emerge in the felt experience linked to the river, coexisting and in tension with hegemonic positions of the State and the armed groups.