La desterritorialización y sus afectaciones en las narrativas sobre el cuerpo y el territorio del pueblo Kamëntsá Biyá en Bogotá

Abstract

The Constitutional Court, in its Judgment T-025 of 2004, recognized the existence of an “unconstitutional state of affairs” related to the violation of the rights of various Indigenous peoples. One of the 34 Indigenous peoples identified as being at risk of physical and cultural extermination is the Kamëntsá Biyá, originally from the Sibundoy Valley, or Waman Luar Tabanok (“sacred place of origin”). Since the colonial period and to the present day, the Kamëntsá Biyá people have been affected by various forms of disruption, including evangelization, armed conflict, and the arrival of multinational corporations in their territory. Each of these circumstances has led Kamëntsá people to relocate to other cities in search of better employment, educational, and housing opportunities. This situation has resulted in processes of deterritorialization that entail the loss of the relational ties that Kamëntsá people maintain with their territory and worldview. Based on in-depth semi-structured interviews, this thesis analyzes the concept of territory from an Indigenous perspective and examines the impacts of deterritorialization on the narratives of several Kamëntsá people within an urban context such as Bogotá.