Abstract

MONSALVE FRIEDMAN, Luz Marina. Sociopolitical conflict and territorial impact of mining extractivism. Bitácora Urbano Territorial [online]. 2022, vol.32, n.1, pp.59-72.  Epub July 08, 2022. ISSN 0124-7913.  https://doi.org/10.15446/bitacora.v32n1.98485.

Some of the causes of the socio-political conflict in Colombia are associated with forced displacement and violent deaths generated by mining projects. These projects cause environmental impacts on ecosystems, alter territorial groupings, fracture the socio-economic cohesion of native communities, and encourage the actions of armed groups. However, the biased approach to mining activities and the overvaluation of its contribution to gross domestic product, has minimized the interpretation of its complexity to a merely political issue of the territorial dispute, when in depth the negotiation of payments with non-state armed groups, in the form of 'vaccines' for transnationals, requires revealing other layers amalgamated with supra-territorial interests, such as the displacement, disappearance and death of people and communities. To understand nature and the havoc that mining produces, allows to propose a critique of techno / science in two methodological directions confronted in state and citizen action: a technocratic version of state energy management and planning conceived as a commodity, and a vision that recognizes nature as a living organic corpus that generates inalienable rights contextualized in the principles of the Nation.

Keywords : conflict; mining; environmental; impact; communities.

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