Abstract
The Colombian Pacific constitutes a spatiality shaped by extractive cycles, port capitalism, and armed conflict. Amid various forms of violence, racism, and territorial dispossession, diverse practices of community resistance emerge that reclaim the sacralization of life and territory. Through a historical-processual analysis based on primary and secondary sources, this article examines how the resistant power of the sacred is expressed in two grassroots experiences in Buenaventura, Colombia: The Ethnic-Territorial Organization Asociación Comunidades Negras de los Terrenos Ganados al Mar and the Corporación Centro Pastoral Afrocolombiana (CEPAC). The article concludes that the sacred is not merely symbolic, but a radical form of challenging neoliberal governmentality and dynamics of accumulation by dispossession.
| Translated title of the contribution | Life and Territory as Resistant Forces: Violence and Sacralities in the Colombian Pacific |
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| Original language | Spanish |
| Pages (from-to) | 254-277 |
| Journal | Ciencia Nueva, Revista de Historia y Politica |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 25 Oct 2025 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Keywords
- Buenaventura
- resistance
- sacralities
- life
- territory
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Resistencias comunitarias a las prácticas biopolíticas. El papel de la violencia y lo sagrado y sus vínculos con la memoria social.
Calveiro, P. (PI), Jaramillo Marin, J. (PI) & Parrado Pardo, E. P. (CoI)
01/04/24 → 31/10/25
Project: Research
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