Voz territorial, despojo y resistencia a la expansión del extractivismo carbonífero en el sur de La Guajira
Voice, as an expression of individuality, serves as a powerful political tool, embodying identity and agency in communication with the surrounding environment. However, it is also vulnerable to suppression by dominant forces. Drawing on Adriana Cavarero’s political philosophy of voice and Jacques Ra...
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| author | María Cecilia Roa-García Alejandro Quecedo del Val Nils Lagrève Ana Manuela Amaya Morales |
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| description | Voice, as an expression of individuality, serves as a powerful political tool, embodying identity and agency in communication with the surrounding environment. However, it is also vulnerable to suppression by dominant forces. Drawing on Adriana Cavarero’s political philosophy of voice and Jacques Rancière’s concept of the distribution of the sensible, this article explores the erosion of territorial voice as a precursor to the dispossession inherent in extractivist projects. These projects target lands inhabited by deeply rooted communities whose existence is intertwined with their autopoietic relationship to their territories. This study is based on participant observation and in-depth interviews conducted between 2023 and 2024 with members of communities affected by coal mining in La Guajira. These include the displaced peoples of Roche, Chancleta, Patilla, and Tabaco, as well as the community of Cañaverales, which inhabits land designated for a new coal mine. The expansion of coal extractivism in southern La Guajira demonstrates how the dispossession of territorial voice is a defining feature of totalitarian extractivist regimes. Such regimes suppress individuality expressed through voice, imposing homogenization, obscurity, and impoverishment on human experience. Extractivism systematically ignores territorial voices, enforcing its dominance by silencing them. Genuine engagement with the unique voices of rooted communities requires a sensitive openness—a readiness to be affected by and resonate with their sounds, stories, and singular expressions of historical becoming. This article offers an original contribution by framing voice as a metaphysical category that captures the intimate bond between a people and their territory. It also sheds light on the metaphysical struggles waged against the relentless advance of extractivism. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c722a404d6cc447fa5857c042c090b122025-01-27T20:10:09ZengUniversidad de los Andes (Bogotá)Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología1900-54072011-42732025-01-01588310510.7440/antipoda58.2025.04Voz territorial, despojo y resistencia a la expansión del extractivismo carbonífero en el sur de La GuajiraMaría Cecilia Roa-García0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4229-6079Alejandro Quecedo del Val1https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0541-2766Nils Lagrève2https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4459-1204Ana Manuela Amaya Morales3https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3961-4439Universidad de los Andes, ColombiaSciences Po Paris, FranciaSciences Po Paris, FranciaUniversidad de los Andes, ColombiaVoice, as an expression of individuality, serves as a powerful political tool, embodying identity and agency in communication with the surrounding environment. However, it is also vulnerable to suppression by dominant forces. Drawing on Adriana Cavarero’s political philosophy of voice and Jacques Rancière’s concept of the distribution of the sensible, this article explores the erosion of territorial voice as a precursor to the dispossession inherent in extractivist projects. These projects target lands inhabited by deeply rooted communities whose existence is intertwined with their autopoietic relationship to their territories. This study is based on participant observation and in-depth interviews conducted between 2023 and 2024 with members of communities affected by coal mining in La Guajira. These include the displaced peoples of Roche, Chancleta, Patilla, and Tabaco, as well as the community of Cañaverales, which inhabits land designated for a new coal mine. The expansion of coal extractivism in southern La Guajira demonstrates how the dispossession of territorial voice is a defining feature of totalitarian extractivist regimes. Such regimes suppress individuality expressed through voice, imposing homogenization, obscurity, and impoverishment on human experience. Extractivism systematically ignores territorial voices, enforcing its dominance by silencing them. Genuine engagement with the unique voices of rooted communities requires a sensitive openness—a readiness to be affected by and resonate with their sounds, stories, and singular expressions of historical becoming. This article offers an original contribution by framing voice as a metaphysical category that captures the intimate bond between a people and their territory. It also sheds light on the metaphysical struggles waged against the relentless advance of extractivism.https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/antipoda/article/view/9687/10474distribution of the sensibleextractivismla guajiraphilosophy of voiceprior consultationterritorial metaphysics |
| spellingShingle | María Cecilia Roa-García Alejandro Quecedo del Val Nils Lagrève Ana Manuela Amaya Morales Voz territorial, despojo y resistencia a la expansión del extractivismo carbonífero en el sur de La Guajira Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología distribution of the sensible extractivism la guajira philosophy of voice prior consultation territorial metaphysics |
| title | Voz territorial, despojo y resistencia a la expansión del extractivismo carbonífero en el sur de La Guajira |
| title_full | Voz territorial, despojo y resistencia a la expansión del extractivismo carbonífero en el sur de La Guajira |
| title_fullStr | Voz territorial, despojo y resistencia a la expansión del extractivismo carbonífero en el sur de La Guajira |
| title_full_unstemmed | Voz territorial, despojo y resistencia a la expansión del extractivismo carbonífero en el sur de La Guajira |
| title_short | Voz territorial, despojo y resistencia a la expansión del extractivismo carbonífero en el sur de La Guajira |
| title_sort | voz territorial despojo y resistencia a la expansion del extractivismo carbonifero en el sur de la guajira |
| topic | distribution of the sensible extractivism la guajira philosophy of voice prior consultation territorial metaphysics |
| url | https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/antipoda/article/view/9687/10474 |
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