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Ordinary Geographies: Care, Violence, and Agrarian Extractivism in “Post‐Conflict” Colombia
Author(s) -
BermanArévalo Eloísa,
Ojeda Diana
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/anti.12667
Subject(s) - agrarian society , citizen journalism , ethnography , reproduction , government (linguistics) , political science , political economy , sociology , gender studies , geography , ecology , law , anthropology , archaeology , agriculture , linguistics , philosophy , biology
Abstract In Colombia’s agrarian spaces, war and extractivism are deeply entangled. Almost four years after the peace accords signed between the national government and the FARC guerrilla, post‐conflict geographies are best characterised by the ongoing dispossession of local populations related to the entrenchment of extractivism. Drawing from ethnographic work carried out in the Colombian Caribbean on the ordinary practices and spaces of social reproduction, the ordinary geographies , this article explores gendered practices of care and their role in both sustaining and disrupting paramilitary violence and agrarian extractivism. The focus not just on the gendered effects of war and extractivism, but on gender’s constitutive role in the configuration of these processes and dynamics, allows us to contribute to recent literature on extractivism, dispossession and violence from a feminist standpoint.