Water bodies, as a processes of resistance

Various communities in Colombia articulate their knowledges and feelings from water bodies. In the Middle Magdalena region, El Llanito Fishermen and Fish Farmers Association (APALL) (for its Spanish abbreviation), has sailed and resisted degradation of its wetland ecosystem for more than two decades...

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Published in:Revista Latina de Comunicación Social 2019-01 (74), p.1321-1334
Main Authors: Martínez Páez, Laura Melina, Porras Camacho, Paola
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bibliographic literature
Collective action
Community
Editorials
Environmental stewardship
Fish
Natural resources
Population
Society
Violence
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Summary:Various communities in Colombia articulate their knowledges and feelings from water bodies. In the Middle Magdalena region, El Llanito Fishermen and Fish Farmers Association (APALL) (for its Spanish abbreviation), has sailed and resisted degradation of its wetland ecosystem for more than two decades. For years, the lake has been a strategic point for illegal armed groups' actions. This configures a relationship of power, domination and and territory exploitation. APALL generates resistance processes through communication actions that tell about deep connections and sensibility established by fishermen with the lake. In that sense, interaction with the territory is not reduced to recognize it as an environment, a place, or a resource, but as one other, whom to share a connection with, and it is consolidated as a structuring axis of their narratives, collectivities and productive knowledges. This research article goes for visibility and recognition of the resistance exercise played by El Llanito Fishermen and Fish Farmers Association (APALL) (for its Spanish abbreviation), in defense of the Llanito Lake, located in the State of Santander, Colombia, through the empowering their cosmovision.
ISSN:1138-5820
1138-5820
DOI:10.4185/RLCS-2019-1386en