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Revista Colombiana de Antropología
Print version ISSN 0486-6525
Abstract
RUIZ SERNA, Daniel. Territory as Victim. Political Ontology and the Laws for Victims of Indigenous and Afrodescendant Communities in Colombia. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2017, vol.53, n.2, pp.85-113. ISSN 0486-6525.
The Victims and Land Restitution Law for indigenous peoples includes the recognition of their territories as victims of the armed conflict in Colombia. Through the use of political ontology as an analytical framework, it is argued that such recognition is not limited to the protection and restitution of rights regarding collective property. Instead, the idea of territory as a victim encompasses a set of damages that extend beyond humans as the armed conflict has also affected the myriad of non-human beings that are an essential part of indigenous and Afro-Colombian territories. This paper explores some political, epistemological, and ontological consequences of such measure.
Keywords : territory; ontology; victims; indigenous people; Afro-Colombian communities.