From African diaspora to Afro-Colombian transhumance. The Spoliation of the coast

Abstract

The dynamics of mobilization developed along the Colombian Pacific for a few decades concerning the construction of the black community as a collective subject of territorial, economic and cultural rights, have emerged in a parallel way to global phenomena as the consolidation of this geographical zone as an important scene of biodiversity and the adoption of multicultural regimes in the whole hemisphere. In this article, I analyze on one hand, the form in which the concurrence of these factors has had the double connotation of recognizing a juridical and political subjectivity to the black communities, simultaneously to the restoration and the progressive intensification of the armed conflict in this zone; on the other hand, I argue how the process of ethnicization achieved by these groups has constituted an important input as a strategy of resistance and fight to the logics of terror imposed in its territories.