In The Geographies of Social Movements Ulrich Oslender proposes a
critical place perspective to examine the activism of black
communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast
region. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in and around
the town of Guapi, Oslender examines how the work of local
community councils, which have organized around newly granted
ethnic and land rights since the early 1990s, is anchored to space
and place. Exploring how residents' social relationships are
entangled with the region's rivers, streams, swamps, rain, and
tides, Oslender argues that this "aquatic space"-his
conceptualization of the mutually constitutive relationships
between people and their rain forest environment-provides a local
epistemology that has shaped the political process. Oslender
demonstrates that social mobilization among Colombia's Pacific
Coast black communities is best understood as emerging out of their
place-based identity and environmental imaginaries. He argues that
the critical place perspective proposed accounts more fully for the
multiple, multiscalar, rooted, and networked experiences within
social movements.
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