| Explore how rural, Indigenous, and Afro-descendent peoples in the Americas see forests, fields, mountains, savanna, wetlands, and rivers as life giving places and as territories that give the good life. The land question matters deeply for many rural communities. With special emphasis on rural areas of Colombia, consider claims for collective title, territory, common property, and self-governance advanced by peasant, Indigenous, and Afro-descendent communities. Topics include Afro-descendent, Indigenous, and peasant social movements, claims for collective territory, the rights of nature, social cartography, agrarian change, and resource conflicts in the context of the criminalization of protest, the ongoing internal conflict, and the war on drugs in Colombia. |
