The project “Water conflicts, violations and forms of self-protection: A multi-case study in Eastern Antioquia, Colombia” has published a new article (in Spanish) titled “Hydrosocial Resistances and Environmental Subjectivity: Defense of Water in San Luis, Eastern Antioquia” in the journal El Ágora USB. The article is co-authored by project team members Denisse Roca-Servat, Juan David Arias-Henao, Jessica Restrepo Gallego, Luis Evelio Giraldo García and Dubán Quinchía González.
Abstract: The socio-environmental movement in the municipality of San Luis, in eastern Antioquia, Colombia, has faced a historical process of defending its waters and territories, which has been transformed as territorial conflicts have been reconfigured. This article explores three periods of hydro-social resistance, by highlighting the environmental subjectivity that emerges in each. This piece of research employs a participatory action research methodology, and it stems from a multi-case study in eastern Antioquia. As part of the findings, the emergence of a new environmental subjectivity is observed as a response to territorial dispossession, expressed through art and pedagogy.
The Spanish-language article can be downloaded here.