Abstract

RESTREPO, EDUARDO. ETHNICIZATION AND MULTICULTURALISM IN BAJO ATRATO. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2011, vol.47, n.2, pp.37-68. ISSN 0486-6525.

This article examines some of the effects of multiculturalism in a specific place: the lower Atrato River in the Colombian Department of Chocó. In order to do this I focus on the scope and reach of the process of ethnicization of 'black communities'. I highlight the performative effects that the legislation inspired by the multicultural turn -and which constituted 'black communities' as an ethnic group- has had on the Colombian juridical and political imagination. I am more interested in examining the emergence of an ethnicization process in the lower Atrato than in diagnosing the current organizational situation in the region, as well as of non-governmental interventions (both Colombian and foreign) or State initiatives which are taking place today in response to international humanitarian law or to the return of displaced populations.

Keywords : ethnicization; multiculturalism; lower Atrato River; Chocó; black communities; afro-descendants.

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