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While conflict-related sexual violence has gained attention on international transitional justice agendas, conflict-related reproductive violence continues to be overlooked. The Colombian Truth Commission was the first truth-seeking transitional justice body worldwide to directly investigate these forms of conflict-related violence. Based on an ethnographic analysis of the Commission's work on reproductive violence, in this article I engage with the reproductive justice framework to argue that the Commission's work broadened understandings of both gendered victimhood and reproductive autonomy. Regarding gendered victimhood, I show that the Commission's work focused on gaining recognition for conflict-related reproductive violence as distinct from conflict-related sexual violence, identifying conflict-related practices of reproductive violence and offering recommendations for addressing such practices. Secondly, I show that not only was the Commission the first truth-seeking body to directly investigate reproductive violence, but it did so through an understanding of reproductive violence that does not revolve around the notion of autonomy as individual choice. I argue that by doing this, the Commission compelled us to comprehensively consider war as part of the conditions under which reproductive autonomy may be exercised. Following this line, the latter part of the article focuses on the Colombian government's use of glyphosate as a form of conflict-related reproductive violence that claimed ownership over the reproductive futures of entire communities by creating environmental devastation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article reveals how some women full professors have developed caring and careful practices with their students despite the neoliberalization of public higher education, thus, avoiding individualization and establishing trust and solidarity. It presents interviews with 24 women full professors from a Colombian public university, an ethnographic study with three of them and nineteen interviews with their students and colleagues. The content analysis of the fieldwork shows that the professors have caring practices, which include rebuscarse to ensure the well-being of the students and providing financial support, as well as careful practices such as intervening to prevent harm and being open to listening. Caring and careful practices of the professors serve to improve the lives of the people that are close to them and to build a much friendlier and more supportive university. However, care activities are complex, undervalued and represent a double burden, which is why modifying university policies is an urgent task. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During a week in September of 2016, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC) held its tenth guerrilla conference, the Décima, in the plains of Yarí in southern Colombia. The guerrilla group blew the event open to the media, orchestrating a festival cum eco-conflict-tourism extravaganza to mark its transition to legal politics. This photo/ethnographic analysis of the Décima illuminates the FARC's symbolic and discursive formation at a pivotal transitional moment and how the group imagined its political possibilities at the cusp of its demobilisation. By engaging with Guy Debord's concept of 'integrated spectacle', I argue that the FARC's vanguardist structure led it to brand itself as the leader of a broad political mobilisation, even as it struggled to retain the allegiance of its former combatants. The article considers the ongoing relevance of the integrated spectacle for scholars and activists and opens a path for further research into politics of spectacle in Latin America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Campesinos in the Serranía de las Quinchas, Colombia, have been excluded from conservation agendas, resulting in environmental injustices. • These communities have also experienced armed violence and private and state-led forms of accumulation and dispossession. • A feminist and spatial analysis evidences the slow and gendered violence impacting men and women in the aftermath of conservation and violence. • New mobility regimes shape men's and women's lives differently, transforming historically dynamic mobilities distinctive to campesino life. • Novel environmental offsetting schemes evidence the mutually reinforcing relationship between conservation and violence. Scholars and communities have long argued that conservation-induced injustices worsen in armed conflict contexts, where historical warfare processes, state formation, and accumulation overlap with the imperatives of nature preservation. This paper contributes to these analyses by showing how the mutually reinforcing relationship between conservation and violence is spatialized through ordinary, often taken-for-granted, less dramatic forms of exclusion. Focusing on the Serranía de las Quinchas in Puerto Boyacá, Colombia, a region that played a critical role in the country's armed conflict, I analyze how people's everyday displacements and mobility regimes were transformed as a result of the entwined repertoires of conservation and violence. Ethnographic and archival research in this study describes the mobilities and space-making projects of campesinos colonos , and how they were gradually transformed with the emergence of development and scientific narratives related to deforestation anxiety and biodiversity loss, armed control, and present-day forms of environmental offsetting and neoliberal conservation schemes. The study highlights how mundane, gendered spatialities shifted with the territorialization of conservation's slow violence. The literature on green grabbing often emphasizes dramatic, conservation-induced displacements; in Quinchas, however, the unjust spatial arrangements arising from conservation and violence are embedded in new, everyday mobilities that reshape local campesino life projects. This process is qualitatively distinct from the well-documented scenarios of fortress and militarized conservation. Specifically, women's everyday mobilities have been restricted in favor of better conservation outcomes, environmental offsetting projects, and the mobility of non-human neighbors. This immobility starkly contrasts with the dynamic historical mobilities unique to campesino space-making projects. Amidst renewed debates and proposals around just and convivial conservation, this paper is cautious of the subtle, insidious risks posed by conservation's seemingly benign temporalities, enclosures, and everyday geographies that scholars and conservation practitioners might overlook. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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• Small-scale gold mining (SSGM) has often been described as a conflictive activity. • Yet stakeholder agendas in SSGM, while often at variance, also unite in compromises. • Thus, we see the activity as one of not only conflict, but also "amalgamation." • We present a three-pronged analysis to sustain our proposition. • We conceptualize amalgamation as a social, technological, and legal phenomenon. Popular and scholarly accounts often describe small-scale gold mining as a conflict-ridden economy that takes place in regions where state law is lacking. Our long-term ethnographic research in Colombia and Suriname has shown that stakeholder agendas in the goldfields, although often at variance, also come together in unexpected compromises and entanglements. We therefore propose to think of small-scale gold mining as an activity of not only conflict, but also of amalgamation ; that is, as an activity that brings presumably adversary actors, labor practices, and governance systems together in temporary moments of conviviality. We present a three-pronged ethnographic analysis to sustain our proposition, thereby conceptualizing amalgamation as a social, technological, and legal phenomenon. First, we show that mining regions are characterized by social amalgamation; that is to say, by continuous compromises between the competing agendas of stakeholders. Second, we zoom in on technological amalgamation. We set out that technological differences that provoke hostility and conflict also have a more productive side, as miners employing various methods depend on each other in the process of gold extraction. And third, we provide illustrations of legal amalgamation that serve to highlight that the socio-political organization of small-scale gold mining, while largely happening outside the legal framework, comes into being through the symbolism and material infrastructure of the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The recognition of cultural practices around the archaeological assets documented in the Cundiboyacense highlands, eastern Andes of Colombia, allowed to identify narratives that account for possible relationships between myths, rites, and recorded archaeological assets. Through an ethnoarchaeological and iconographic study in 31 archaeological glasses and 20 ethnographic vessels of the Archaeological Museum of Tunja, it was possible to identify discursive, typological and morphological relationships between the rite of sowing water that is still practiced by highland peasants and the myth of Muisca origin Bachue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article observes the Latin American debate on "territory" through the lens of the "territorial-peace" approach agreed in the peace accord between the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas in 2016. It explores the different notions of territory entailed in this concept and shows that the territorial-peace approach builds on a political-programmatic understanding of territory due to its rural focus. An ethnographic analysis of the urban renewal programme PRIMED, implemented at the disputed urban periphery of Colombia's second city, Medellín, in the 1990s, demonstrates how this programme anticipated the idea of territorial peace in a conflictive urban context. The ethnography reveals the ambiguities and inconsistencies of the production of urban territory, both as state space and as the space of subaltern social groups, through territorial peacebuilding. The discussion why PRIMED challenges the political-programmatic understanding of territory in the territorial-peace debate concludes with highlighting why it makes a difference approaching territorial peace as a "political project to be achieved" or as an unpredictable process of territorialisation and why this distinction matters if the territorial-peace approach is to be extended to urban contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on historical and ethnographic research conducted in a region of northwest Colombia and drawing on the stories of novelist Gabriel García Márquez, this article develops the analytical concept of "narco‐frontiers" to help disentangle the confusing political economy of agrarian spaces affected by the violence of the drug war. As socially produced spaces, narco‐frontiers emerge through the convergence of four interlocking processes: uneven development, internal colonialism, political violence, and narco‐fuelled dispossession. Although often depicted as "ungovernable" or "stateless" spaces, narco‐frontiers are wracked by extra‐legal regimes of rule in which the state is simply one actor among others. With the drug trade inducing violent agrarian change all over the world—from Colombia to Afghanistan, Burma to Central America—this article offers a spatial‐historical framework for understanding these dramatic transformations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article discusses tensions and dynamics around configuring children born as a result of wartime sexual violence as subjects within the realities in which transitional justice operates. Based on ethnographic research in Colombia, the article explores how a victimhood discourse and an explanatory framing to understand gender-based violence and sexual violence as a weapon of war, have restricted the emergence of these children as independent war-affected subjects. Instead, they have emerged as subjects that play a part in the social negotiations around victims of wartime sexual violence - for instance, gender and forced maternity - or around perpetrators and their constant presence in the history of the communities. To understand the plight and role of these subjects within the political community, transitional justice frameworks must contest the normative approach to harm, as these women and men were conceived by war but are not defined by it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scholars have shown how memory is an embodied and spatial practice that potentially generates more just possible futures, and that peace is a politicized and contextually specific process, but how does place-based memory performance actually contribute to social movements’ construction of peace? This article explores massacre commemoration pilgrimages and stones painted with victims’ names in the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, a group of small-scale farmers living in the war-torn region of Urabá, Colombia. Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in Colombia from 2011 to 2014, including participant observation and 49 interviews, I explore the relationship between these spatially embodied practices and the community’s resistance to forced displacement and peace-building project. I argue that these forms of memorialization cultivate key elements for an autonomist ‘other politics’, including solidarity with allies; mobilizing bodies across space to defend life and land; and ongoing reflection, education and strategic planning that strengthen community cohesion and organization. Integrating scholarship on memory performance, peace geographies, and social movements, I illustrate how the San José de Apartadó Peace Community’s massacre commemorations and stones reject vindictive violence and instead build an alternative, transformative and emancipatory politics through internal and external solidarity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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In recent decades, the field of anthropological studies have produced different proposals for ethnographic analysis of the state, which have shifted their focus from the centralized government apparatus to the different actors involved in state-building processes. Taking up these proposals, we will analyze how black settlers from High Atrato, in the Colombian Pacific, build their imaginaries around the state, through its interaction with the officials in charge of the policy of collective titling to black communities. This analysis will allow us to see how, far from being a monolithic and coherent entity, the State is presented as a complex organization, as an arena of relationships and inequalities of power and influence between different actors, which when adhering to the dominant institutional structures, end up contributing to the overall project of state domination [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This ethnographic and analytical study of discursive interaction was undertaken in natural science lessons in first and second grades in three public schools in Bogota, Colombia. The analysis explores how constructing scientific knowledge in the classroom is influenced by the students' and teachers' personal experiences. The results evidence that like in the scientific community, where established theories and knowledge of scientific culture model observation, participants in the classroom interact to collaboratively construct permeated scientific knowledge that relates to the socio-cultural context from which it emerges. Because of this, we believe that understanding the complex dynamic between teacher and student in the natural science class, contributes to the debate on how science is constructed in the classroom, and thus analyze how it can be improved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the opportunities and challenges given by social cartography as a participatory and collaborative methodology to characterize the socio-environmental conflicts in three areas of the upper basin of the Cauca River, Colombia. The text is organized in five parts: (i) introduction to the article, (ii) description of the problem and the research context, (iii) presentation of the ethnographic context and methodological decisions, (iv) reflection on the cartographic process and products, and (iv) conclusions on the main methodological challenges identified during the development of the research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How does risk become a technique for governing the future of cities and urban life? Using genealogical and ethnographic methods, this paper tracks the emergence of risk management in Bogotá, Colombia, from its initial institutionalization to its ongoing implementation in governmental practice. Its specific focus is the invention of the 'zone of high risk' in Bogotá and the everyday work performed by the officials responsible for determining the likelihood of landslide in these areas. It addresses the ongoing formation of techniques of urban planning and governance and the active relationship between urban populations and environments and emerging forms of political authority and technical expertise. Ultimately, it reveals that techniques of risk management are made and remade as experts and nonexperts grapple with the imperative to bring heterogeneous assemblages of people and things into an unfolding technopolitical domain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses and questions the concept of "cultural text" developed by anthropologists such as Clifford Geertz. The theory of culture as text opens the possibility of a semiotic reading of the cultural text, giving the anthropologist the role of hermeneutic interpreter of foreign cultures as systems of symbols. The paper shows, through analysis the literary of trilogy Amazon's from German writer Alfred Dòblin, that the ethnographic approach is not always characterized by processes of understanding and interpretation, but is just the reflection of illegibility phenomena can be a fruitful basis for a cultural approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fernandez' civilizatory fantasy in J.A. Silva's De Sobremesa provides a position from which to re-read discourses about space and place written by elite Colombian geographers and ethnographers. From a vantage point infused in parody, this fantasy deploys the metaphorical arsenal used by elites to encode the Colombian tropics. Thus, Silva unmasks contemporary intellectuals as travelers whose spatial imagination was literary, prophesizes the consequences of conceiving the tropics from a temperate worldview, and mocks the possibility of conceiving national culture as a natural product. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents an analysis of the reaction of the indigenous community of the north Cauca region of Colombia to the armed conflict in its territory during the period 2000-2005. We attempt to explain how this community succeeded in constructing an active resistance to the conflict. The article, basically an ethnographic study, proceeds from a perspective that privileges the study of collective cultural and identity elements as elaborated by Sonia Alvarez, Evelina Dagnino, and Arturo Escobar (2001) in their book Politica Cultural y Cultura Politica. The article presents the interpretations and definitions of war and peace found in the discourses of the members of the indigenous movement of the north of Cauca. We demonstrate that in the indigenous case, culture and identity are important sources of the symbolic elements that sustain the processes of resistance and at the same time create an important alternative space relating to the theme of peace and the country's armed conflict. This alternative space contrasts with the visions held by the state as well as those held by the actors in the armed conflict. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This investigation sought to identify the most significant ways in which sexuality is represented and imagined within the culture of transgender women in Colombia. We performed an exploratory descriptive study using surveys, in-depth interviews, focus groups and ethnographic strategies with 18 transgender women. The collected information was analyzed, taking into account the following dimensions of interpretation: 1. Love, erotic, and sexual relations. 2. Gender and sexual identities. 3. Sexual behavior and practices. 4. Self-care, Human Inmunodeficiency Virus (HIV) risk perception and life goals. The transgender women reached in this investigation expressed the belief that adopting a feminine identity involved taking sexual risks because the space socially assigned for them is that of street prostitution in conditions of vulnerability. We propose interventions with transgender women that favor autonomy, joy, and self-care as the central elements of a quality life and equal citizenship focused on reducing stigma. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article refers to university self-assessment with an eye towards institutional accreditation founded on a framework of guidelines involving what can be considered as quality in higher education. It is based on the results of two studies that were used in the process to accredit the University of Caldas. The first sought to become familiar with the everyday life at the university, through the imaginaries of professors and students. The second constructed a system of self-assessment for the university, with a view towards institutional accreditation, based on an analysis of the imaginaries of its communities. The article proposes a form of self-assessment that rescues the voice of communities, inasmuch as quality is a social construction. The studies in question adopted an approach that is based on ethnographic complementarity. Accordingly, the ethnographic method was used, with life histories, in-depth interviews and group discussions taken as a reference. The archeological method was employed as well. The system of relevance and opacity was used as a means of interpretation, in addition to a survey, with the statistical basis needed to secure the quantitative information required to expand the qualitative foundation that was obtained. In summary, the article shows how the circumstances of university life do not depend on the criteria established beforehand in rules and regulations, projects and plans, but are deconstructed constantly in everyday life, generating other categories of quality not foreseen in those criteria, or affording value to others that are barely visible within the logic of the institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article highlights the main methodological problems and solutions encountered while researching violent young men in the marginalised north-eastern area of Medellín, Colombia. Using ethnographic methods, the research investigated how violent behaviour may be inherited, and its relationship to masculinities and youth. It asked how violence is transmitted to young men in both domestic and social spaces, and evaluated the relationship between marginalisation and social violence. Little has been written about how researchers can access violent actors who are reluctant to come forward or tell the truth, nor the ethical issues that arise when researching violent subjects in conflict contexts. This article explains how dangers were dealt with, but also how problems of accessing violent actors were overcome, and considers the ethical dilemmas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is an exercise on the ethnographic interpretation of the "paseode olla", an urban practice observed at a traditional park in bogotá, the "Parque Nacional Enrique Olaya Herrera". The text combines ethnographic descriptions and reflections about the urban public space as well as socio-spatial analyses of human interaction. The text emphasizes in the importance of space practices analyses as forms of culture materialization in urban contexts. It also shows the persistence of the family in contemporary urban practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is compiling some of the main methodological axes around which a research on political violence incidence on daily life of peasants in the Macarena sierra, located in Colombian Western Amazonia. This text aims to bring some elements to the methodological debate addressed by several anthropology works made in local contexts affected by political violence. Written as a research report, this paper presents several results of our work, the analysis framework used and the main features defining ethnographical practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents some advances of the research project on Practices of the Youth as Citizen Expressions. From the analysis of three university student groups taken from the 20 groups of youths that participate in this mixed method combining ethnographic strategies with narrative and discursive analysis, the article describes the trajectory and the practices of these groups and shows how the students live experiences that ease the development of different citizen expressions and abilities. The conclusions state that the creation, support and agency of these groups in the universities represent a way to encourage the formation of citizens, and some suggestions are presented related to this topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents developments in research concerning communication in the mathematics classroom. Specifically, it describes the discourse that arises in the classroom when the act of teaching-learning a particular concept of mathematics takes place guided by an "Expert educator". From a case study, with ethnographic methodologies and analysis of the discourse, it tries to offer an analysis tool that enables teachers and psychologists to find the answers to questions such as: which discursive functions and strategies are privileged in the learning process; how do the actions of the participants are organized in the didactic sequences; and how do processes of attribution and modification of meaning appearin their discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents and analyzes the identity construction process of a rail workers' collective of rural origin that was linked to an industrial work environment by the middle of the 20th century in Bogotá. Different ruptures and continuities, as well as the confluence of working tensions and vindications of the rural trajectories, determine the composition of particular memory and identity matters. From collected oral narratives of the laborers, this study shows the most significant elements of day-to-day life around the railroads, its tensions and its encounters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]