... This chapter critically examines the strategies and achievements of Afro-Colombian social movements from the late 1980s to 2000. Informed by Gramsci’s insights about the relationship between the state and civil society and postcolonial feminist scholarship, the chapter’s analysis steers clear...

...Indigenous Models in Other Contexts<subtitle>The Case of Afro-Colombians</subtitle> ...

... ethnic identity territory land rights Colombian Constitution Afro-Colombia ...

... Catholicism in Colombia Judaism in Colombia Afro-Colombians Albalucia Ángel Camilo Torres ...

... Gramsci Law 70 conjunctures Afro-Colombian postcolonial feminist scholarship social exclusion black communities ...

... reaction. extractivism mining conflicts referendum farmer communities Peru This chapter critically examines the strategies and achievements of Afro-Colombian social movements from the late 1980s to 2000. Informed by Gramsci’s insights about the relationship between the state and civil...

... research in a politically charged context. It outlines how the author’s prolonged presence among Afro-Colombians in Guapi led to a dialogical engagement, drawing on a rich tradition of experimental ethnographies and activist methodologies proposed by paradigmatic figures such as Paulo Freire and Orlando...

... were part of the Jiménez de Quesada expedition against the Muiscas; and an extract from the 1991 Constitution recognizing the possibility of collective land titles for Afro-Colombians. Also translated here are a bill of sale for an enslaved African girl, descriptions of frontier zones, and texts...

... through which a more analytical account of the sense of place in this part of the world is unlocked. Drawing on James Scott’s work on resistance, this chapter argues that the oral tradition functions as a hidden transcript of resistance that is turned public in the articulation of an Afro-Colombian...

... that the community councils, far from being mere administrative bodies, are complex spaces of negotiation among these various actors. ethnic identity territory land rights Colombian Constitution Afro-Colombia ...

... history; and an extract from the writings of Camilo Torres, who advocated revolution. Religious Pluralities<subtitle>Faith, Intolerance, Politics, and Accommodation</subtitle> Catholicism in Colombia Judaism in Colombia Afro-Colombians Albalucia Ángel Camilo Torres ...