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SINISTERRA-OSSA, Lizeth  e  VALENCIA, Inge Helena. Social Order and Violence in Buenaventura: Between Criminal Outsourcing and Peacebuilding “from Below”. CS [online]. 2020, n.32, pp.103-129. ISSN 2011-0324.  https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i32.3650.

This paper aims to analyze the reconfiguration of social orders in Buenaventura in the Colombia’s post-agreement and transition context. It is focused on understand the emergence of new illegal armed groups linked to microtraffick, and the dynamics of daily negotiations of the local inhabitants’ with violence. From a methodological approach based on ethnography, it aims to investigate the incidence of drug trafficking in the region, the ways young black people join criminal gangs, and the daily negotiation strategies with violence carried out by black women. The article concludes that the most vulnerable scenarios are the territories with greater socioeconomic inequalities, that also are related to race, and gender. These relations produce violence and create racialized geographies that can also change in situations of resistance.

Palavras-chave : Buenaventura; Urban Violence; Social Order; Criminal Outsourcing; Peace “from Below”.

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