Oslender The Geographies of Social Movements

Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7440-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century

In The Geographies of Social Movements Ulrich Oslender examines the activism of black communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific coast to show how the mutually constituting relationships between residents and their environment informs the political process.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oslender, Ulrich

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Abbreviations vii

Acknowledgments xi

Prologue. Black Communities in Colombia and the Constitution of 1991 1

Introduction. The Geographies of Social Movements 7

1. Toward a Critical Place Perspective on Social Movements 25

Interlude. Meeting Don Agapito: Reflections on Fieldwork 36

2. Mapping Meandering Poetics and an Aquatic Sense of Place: Oral Tradition as Hidden Transcript of Resistance 46

3. Historical Geographies of Resistance and Convivencia in the Pacific Lowlands 92

4. Mobilizing the Aquatic Space: The Forming of Community Councils 135

5. Ideals, Practices, and Leadership of the Community Councils 159

Epilogue 205

Notes 221

Glossary 251

References 255

Index 277

Über Autor(innen)

Ulrich Oslender is Associate Professor of Geography at Florida International University and the coeditor of Bridging Scholarship and Activism: Reflections from the Frontlines of Collaborative Research.