Biorresistencias y paz ambiental territorial en Colombia

Abstract

Environmental conflicts have multiplied throughout Latin America, especially in the last 20 to 30 years, mainly due to the imposition and predominance of the neoliberal model. This has reinforced the export-oriented nature of our economies, placing them at the service of the capitalist machine of production, distribution, and consumption. In the Colombian case, this confrontation between commercial interests and the sustainable practices of communities (Afro-American, Indigenous, peasant, women, the poor, etc.) has been compounded by an unavoidable factor in the analysis of environmental conflicts: armed conflict and, concomitantly, the pursuit of peace. As a biopolitical analysis, we seek to investigate how the terrain of environmental conflicts becomes a challenge to the prevailing economic, political, and social orders, supported by the power apparatuses that institutionalize the plundering of nature and war. Using the Havana Peace Agreement (2016) as a framework, it is recognized that these are the territories within the country where the main challenges for sustainable and lasting peace for the country are being played out. For this reason, we focus on the regions considered priorities for the implementation of the agreements (PDET zones) and where the so-called Territorial Spaces for Training and Reincorporation are established, particularly the Pondores and San José de Oriente ETCRs. The proposal involves immersion in the territory to distinguish, systematize, and document the general characteristics of the social resistance movements present in the area in defense of the environment and territory. It is essential to emphasize that this is a research project with a purely academic purpose, meaning the use of its results, rather than a political one. We adopt a theoretical stance in which the exercise of making visible and understanding the dynamics of communities in biopolitical resistance exercises is a commitment to a more ethical interaction between our societies and non-human life and nature, and to the construction of territorial peace in Colombia. The project is part of the development of the doctoral thesis for the Doctorate in Social Studies at the Universidad Distrital.