... Colombia Law 70 Afro-Colombia black communities Pacific Coast ...

.... The prologue examines the ensuing legislation, in particular Law 70 of 1993, and briefly discusses some black community organizations that formed to press the state over collective land rights in the Pacific Coast region. Colombia Law 70 Afro-Colombia black communities Pacific Coast ...

... This chapter examines location and locale on the Pacific Coast. It elaborates on the concept of the aquatic space and its manifestation in the physical environment of a rain forest crisscrossed by intricate river networks and mangrove swamps and in the spatialized social relationships along...

... The epilogue brings the analysis to the present. It begins by outlining the geographies of terror that have been produced in the Pacific Coast region since the late 1990s as the result of an aggressive return to extractive economic practices, specifically oil palm cultivation and mechanical gold...

... This interlude offers methodological reflections on collaborative research. It takes the author’s encounter with a respected local poet in the small town of Guapi on Colombia’s Pacific Coast as a starting point to reflect on methodological and ethical considerations of conducting ethnographic...

... This chapter develops the concept of the “aquatic space” as an assemblage of always shifting relations in which everyday life patterns in Colombia’s Pacific Coast region are deeply entangled with a range of aquatic elements, such as intricate river networks, streams, mangrove swamps, high levels...

... the mainland coast. Starting off in island space and on island time enables also Hopkins to recycle imperial and utopic tropes of the island as paradise, while simultaneously evincing a black circum-Caribbean sensibility of insurgency via the Haitian revolution. Pauline Hopkins diasporic circuit circum...

..., and it became the foremost holding of his Huanchaca Company. While serving as Bolivian president (1888–92), Arce established railroad connections between Pulacayo and Antofagasta on the Chilean coast in 1890 and with Oruro in 1892. After 1927, the tin magnate Mauricio Hochschild held possession of the valuable...