María Cecilia Roa García
Biographic Data
| ID | 1344440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | María Cecilia Roa García |
| GIVEN NAMES | María Cecilia Roa |
| FAMILY NAME | García |
| SIGNATURE | GARCÍA M C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de los Andes |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4229-6079 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Despojo a campesinos colombianos a través del crédito rural
Land dispossession through credit has historically shaped social relations and the distribution of wealth. This research examines the role of rural credit in the dispossession of peasant lands in Colombia and in peasant struggles to maintain ownership, through the analysis of documentary sources that record peasants’ experiences from 1990 to 2023. The study identifies actors, power relations, strategies, and patterns of the phenomenon, which allo…
Lugares amados, lugares sombra: Éticas y estéticas en tiempos de transición
Cañaverales, a community in southern La Guajira (Colombia), is at risk of becoming a shadow place, much like other villages that have vanished due to open-pit coal mining. These towns, disconnected from the national energy grid, have maintained close relationships with natural energy sources—such as the sun, wind, water, and food—despite the lifestyle changes brought by the use of fossil fuels. These connections, however, are steadily eroded by t…
Defending water and life: Domestic ecologies and social reproduction in Buenaventura
During the last four decades, communities in the city of Buenaventura, Colombia's main seaport, have mobilized in order to access public water services. Privatization, poor infrastructural maintenance, and intermittence have made access to water a matter of concern. In this context, the Committee for the Defense of Water and Life came into being in 2014, as an urban grassroots organization, making calls on the city's population to mobilize for th…
Perpetual planning: Expertise, uncertainty, and the politics of delay in Colombia's Guayuriba river-basin
Perpetually planning the Guayuriba River basin for nearly two decades has allowed mining companies to continue extracting gravel, amidst uncertain flooding dynamics; oil companies to continue discharging production waters, despite uncertain water quality; and palm oil plantations to continue large-scale irrigation, notwithstanding uncertainties in water use and availability. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and semi-structured interviews in the …
Voz territorial, despojo y resistencia a la expansión del extractivismo carbonífero en el sur de La Guajira
Voice, as an expression of individuality, serves as a powerful political tool, embodying identity and agency in communication with the surrounding environment. However, it is also vulnerable to suppression by dominant forces. Drawing on Adriana Cavarero's political philosophy of voice and Jacques Rancière's concept of the distribution of the sensible, this article explores the erosion of territorial voice as a precursor to the dispossession inher…
Las Zonas de Reserva Campesina (ZRC) Alrededor de Parques Nacionales Naturales (PNN) en Colombia: Entre el conservacionismo y el Extractivismo
En la Amazonía colombiana, la constitución de Zonas de Reserva Campesina (ZRC) ha sido un proceso históricamente marcado por la estigmatización y la parsimonia del Estado que además de una postura opuesta a la compatibilidad de la presencia humana con la conservación de los Parques Nacionales Naturales (PNN), también ha promovido actividades extractivistas en el territorio. A partir del caso de la ZRC Losada Guayabero, contigua a los Parques Naci…
Cosechando tarulla: La Descolonización Del Ser Desde Una Ciénaga Petrolizada
La ciénaga de Palagua en la región del Magdalena Medio, Colombia, es un territorio regido por casi un siglo de petrodesarrollo y conflicto armado. Esta realidad tóxica, junto con la decepción de victorias legales transitorias y demandas de compensación ambiental, han dejado marcas profundas en la psique de los individuos, y ha erosionado su confianza en sí mismos y el espíritu de las comunidades. Basándonos en investigaciones de archivo, fuentes …
Like harvesting tarulla: The decolonization of being from a petrolized swamp
The Palagua swamp in the Middle Magdalena region of Colombia is a territory governed by nearly a century of petro-development and armed conflict. This toxic reality, along with the disappointment of temporary legal victories and demands for environmental compensation, have left deep marks on individuals' psyche, eroding the self-confidence and spirit of communities. Drawing on archival research, secondary regional sources, and 13 semi-structured …
El Acuerdo de Escazú, la democracia ambiental y la ecologización de los derechos humanos
El Acuerdo de Escazú sobre democracia ambiental surge en un contexto de intensificación del extractivismo y de déficit democrático en la región de América Latina y el Caribe, e insta a los Estados firmantes a implementar los derechos de acceso (información, participación y justicia en temas ambientales) y a proteger la vida de los defensores del medioambiente. El objetivo de este artículo es contrastar el origen, forma y contenido del acuerdo con…
Territorial peace and gold mining in Colombia: Local Peacebuilding, Bottom-Up Development and the Defence of Territories
The concept of territorial peace is at the core of the peace agreement signed by the Colombian government and FARC guerrilla movement in 2016. Recognising the uneven distribution and experiences of violence across Colombia, territorial peace seeks to achieve peace and reconciliation through more inclusive citizenship and new forms of territorial development, including bottom up aspirations. Figuring prominently in official policies, the concept o…
Environmental democratization and water justice in extractive frontiers of Colombia
Water laws in the Andes: A promising precedent for challenging neoliberalism
Recent waves of water governance: Constitutional reform and resistance to neoliberalization in Latin America (1990–2012)
Water Resource Research and Education in Mountain Communities
High elevation páramo (wetland) ecosystems in the Andes are important water sources for local communities and downstream agricultural and urban users. These headwater catchments, however, are often impacted by human activities (eg agricultural production) that affect both stream water quality and flow. Knowledge about water availability, quality, and use is essential for effective management but is often lacking, particularly in smaller mountain …
Recent waves of water governance: Constitutional reform and resistance to neoliberalization in Latin America (1990–2012)
Environmental democratization and water justice in extractive frontiers of Colombia
Water laws in the Andes: A promising precedent for challenging neoliberalism
Territorial peace and gold mining in Colombia: Local Peacebuilding, Bottom-Up Development and the Defence of Territories
The concept of territorial peace is at the core of the peace agreement signed by the Colombian government and FARC guerrilla movement in 2016. Recognising the uneven distribution and experiences of violence across Colombia, territorial peace seeks to achieve peace and reconciliation through more inclusive citizenship and new forms of territorial development, including bottom up aspirations. Figuring prominently in official policies, the concept o…
Las Zonas de Reserva Campesina (ZRC) Alrededor de Parques Nacionales Naturales (PNN) en Colombia: Entre el conservacionismo y el Extractivismo
En la Amazonía colombiana, la constitución de Zonas de Reserva Campesina (ZRC) ha sido un proceso históricamente marcado por la estigmatización y la parsimonia del Estado que además de una postura opuesta a la compatibilidad de la presencia humana con la conservación de los Parques Nacionales Naturales (PNN), también ha promovido actividades extractivistas en el territorio. A partir del caso de la ZRC Losada Guayabero, contigua a los Parques Naci…
Like harvesting tarulla: The decolonization of being from a petrolized swamp
The Palagua swamp in the Middle Magdalena region of Colombia is a territory governed by nearly a century of petro-development and armed conflict. This toxic reality, along with the disappointment of temporary legal victories and demands for environmental compensation, have left deep marks on individuals' psyche, eroding the self-confidence and spirit of communities. Drawing on archival research, secondary regional sources, and 13 semi-structured …
Defending water and life: Domestic ecologies and social reproduction in Buenaventura
During the last four decades, communities in the city of Buenaventura, Colombia's main seaport, have mobilized in order to access public water services. Privatization, poor infrastructural maintenance, and intermittence have made access to water a matter of concern. In this context, the Committee for the Defense of Water and Life came into being in 2014, as an urban grassroots organization, making calls on the city's population to mobilize for th…
Water Resource Research and Education in Mountain Communities
High elevation páramo (wetland) ecosystems in the Andes are important water sources for local communities and downstream agricultural and urban users. These headwater catchments, however, are often impacted by human activities (eg agricultural production) that affect both stream water quality and flow. Knowledge about water availability, quality, and use is essential for effective management but is often lacking, particularly in smaller mountain …
Water laws in the Andes: A promising precedent for challenging neoliberalism
Recent waves of water governance: Constitutional reform and resistance to neoliberalization in Latin America (1990–2012)
Environmental democratization and water justice in extractive frontiers of Colombia
Territorial peace and gold mining in Colombia: Local Peacebuilding, Bottom-Up Development and the Defence of Territories
The concept of territorial peace is at the core of the peace agreement signed by the Colombian government and FARC guerrilla movement in 2016. Recognising the uneven distribution and experiences of violence across Colombia, territorial peace seeks to achieve peace and reconciliation through more inclusive citizenship and new forms of territorial development, including bottom up aspirations. Figuring prominently in official policies, the concept o…
El Acuerdo de Escazú, la democracia ambiental y la ecologización de los derechos humanos
El Acuerdo de Escazú sobre democracia ambiental surge en un contexto de intensificación del extractivismo y de déficit democrático en la región de América Latina y el Caribe, e insta a los Estados firmantes a implementar los derechos de acceso (información, participación y justicia en temas ambientales) y a proteger la vida de los defensores del medioambiente. El objetivo de este artículo es contrastar el origen, forma y contenido del acuerdo con…
Like harvesting tarulla: The decolonization of being from a petrolized swamp
The Palagua swamp in the Middle Magdalena region of Colombia is a territory governed by nearly a century of petro-development and armed conflict. This toxic reality, along with the disappointment of temporary legal victories and demands for environmental compensation, have left deep marks on individuals' psyche, eroding the self-confidence and spirit of communities. Drawing on archival research, secondary regional sources, and 13 semi-structured …
Las Zonas de Reserva Campesina (ZRC) Alrededor de Parques Nacionales Naturales (PNN) en Colombia: Entre el conservacionismo y el Extractivismo
En la Amazonía colombiana, la constitución de Zonas de Reserva Campesina (ZRC) ha sido un proceso históricamente marcado por la estigmatización y la parsimonia del Estado que además de una postura opuesta a la compatibilidad de la presencia humana con la conservación de los Parques Nacionales Naturales (PNN), también ha promovido actividades extractivistas en el territorio. A partir del caso de la ZRC Losada Guayabero, contigua a los Parques Naci…
Cosechando tarulla: La Descolonización Del Ser Desde Una Ciénaga Petrolizada
La ciénaga de Palagua en la región del Magdalena Medio, Colombia, es un territorio regido por casi un siglo de petrodesarrollo y conflicto armado. Esta realidad tóxica, junto con la decepción de victorias legales transitorias y demandas de compensación ambiental, han dejado marcas profundas en la psique de los individuos, y ha erosionado su confianza en sí mismos y el espíritu de las comunidades. Basándonos en investigaciones de archivo, fuentes …
Lugares amados, lugares sombra: Éticas y estéticas en tiempos de transición
Cañaverales, a community in southern La Guajira (Colombia), is at risk of becoming a shadow place, much like other villages that have vanished due to open-pit coal mining. These towns, disconnected from the national energy grid, have maintained close relationships with natural energy sources—such as the sun, wind, water, and food—despite the lifestyle changes brought by the use of fossil fuels. These connections, however, are steadily eroded by t…
Defending water and life: Domestic ecologies and social reproduction in Buenaventura
During the last four decades, communities in the city of Buenaventura, Colombia's main seaport, have mobilized in order to access public water services. Privatization, poor infrastructural maintenance, and intermittence have made access to water a matter of concern. In this context, the Committee for the Defense of Water and Life came into being in 2014, as an urban grassroots organization, making calls on the city's population to mobilize for th…
Perpetual planning: Expertise, uncertainty, and the politics of delay in Colombia's Guayuriba river-basin
Perpetually planning the Guayuriba River basin for nearly two decades has allowed mining companies to continue extracting gravel, amidst uncertain flooding dynamics; oil companies to continue discharging production waters, despite uncertain water quality; and palm oil plantations to continue large-scale irrigation, notwithstanding uncertainties in water use and availability. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and semi-structured interviews in the …
Voz territorial, despojo y resistencia a la expansión del extractivismo carbonífero en el sur de La Guajira
Voice, as an expression of individuality, serves as a powerful political tool, embodying identity and agency in communication with the surrounding environment. However, it is also vulnerable to suppression by dominant forces. Drawing on Adriana Cavarero's political philosophy of voice and Jacques Rancière's concept of the distribution of the sensible, this article explores the erosion of territorial voice as a precursor to the dispossession inher…
Despojo a campesinos colombianos a través del crédito rural
Land dispossession through credit has historically shaped social relations and the distribution of wealth. This research examines the role of rural credit in the dispossession of peasant lands in Colombia and in peasant struggles to maintain ownership, through the analysis of documentary sources that record peasants’ experiences from 1990 to 2023. The study identifies actors, power relations, strategies, and patterns of the phenomenon, which allo…
Political science (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Mining and Resource Management (4 works) · Political economy (4 works)