The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space

by Ulrich Oslender

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822361043
• ISBN13: 9780822361046
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"