Nicolás Acosta García
Biographic Data
| ID | 82469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicolás Acosta García |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicolás Acosta |
| FAMILY NAME | García |
| SIGNATURE | GARCÍA N A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8465-6247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Oil and water: Unlikely alliances in the opposition to extractive industries during popular consultations in Colombia
In 2017, 97,61% of the people of Cumaral, Colombia, voted in a popular consultation against having the oil industry in their municipality. However, this historical result was challenged by the government in court and ultimately overturned in 2018. By looking into the origins and strategies employed by Cumaral's environmental movement, we argue that their success involved turning a diverse, and even contradictory, collective into a singular voice …
The role of external forces in the adoption of aquaculture innovations: An ex-ante case study of fish farming in Colombia's southern Amazonian region
Disagreeing well in an unparadigmatic field: A response to Bodin (2021)
Take back your fish: Questioning NGO-mediated development in Caquetá, Colombia
Could aquaculture lift farmers out of poverty and provide stability and an alternative livelihood to coca farming? Currently, aquaculture is pursued on a moderate scale, with the involvement of around 1500 small-scale farmers, in Caquetá, a department located in the Amazonian bioregion of Colombia. Some 400 farmers are organised in a grassroots non-governmental organisation (NGO) called Acuica. Cultivation and sale of fish provide a means for loc…
The coloniality of power on the green frontier: Commodities and violent territorialisation in Colombia’s Amazon
The dynamic frontier-making in Colombia’s Amazon department of Caquetá is the focus of this article. Since the mid-nineteenth century, booms and busts of commodity production have been associated with violent struggles as actors have challenged pre-existing orders and authorities. At different times, the area has been controlled by the Catholic Church, the Colombian state, FARC and paramilitary groups, following the different boom-and-bust cycles…
Can direct democracy deliver an alternative to extractivism? An essay on popular consultations
Between 2013 and 2018, ten different municipalities in Colombia held popular consultations in which people were asked to decide whether they wanted or not extractive industries in their territory. Promoted and articulated by environmental movements for the defence of water resources and local livelihoods, popular consultations led to surprising alliances of traditionally opposed actors, that found their interests temporarily aligned in opposition…
Catching the White Fish: Gossip and cocaine on Colombia's Northern Pacific coast
What is life like after drift-cocaine arrives in a village on Colombia's Northern Pacific coast? Drift-cocaine is a side-effect of the interdiction of drug transport boats heading towards Central and North America as part of the US-Colombian War on Drugs. Villagers refer to drift-cocaine as the White Fish. Through ethnographic engagement with Afro-descendant peoples in Chocó, this article explores the effects and relations that emerge from an oce…
Contemporary World as a Massive Design Failure: A Way Out
Book Review of Escobar, Arturo. 2018. Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy and the Making of Worlds
Crafting electricity through social protest: Afro-descendant and indigenous Embera communities protesting for hydroelectric infrastructure in Utría National Park, Colombia
Development infrastructure is often discussed in terms of opposition by local and indigenous communities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, we present the case of local indigenous Embera and Afro-descendant communities in Chocó, Colombia, that protested first to gain, and later to maintain access to electricity produced by the Mutatá hydroelectric dam in Utría National Park. In the context of development politics, taking into account the revised C…
Temporalities and Rhythms of Living in Utría National Park, Colombia
This photo essay investigates the political ecology of living in and around Utría National Park, in Colombia's Pacific coast region of Chocó. This area is home to Afro‐descendant and indigenous Embera communities. I use the emic concept of “rhythms” to explore networks and temporalities in subtle elements of pictures displaying local livelihoods, places of dwelling, environmental change, and conservation practices. While acknowledging the complex…
Lectio Praecursoria: Chocó Challenges: Communities Negotiating Matters of Concern and Care on Colombia's Margin
Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood
Sarkki, S., T. Komu, H. I. Heikkinen, N. Acosta García, É. Lépy, and V.-P. Herva. 2016. Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood. Ecology and Society 21(4):14.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08819-210414
The coloniality of power on the green frontier: Commodities and violent territorialisation in Colombia’s Amazon
The dynamic frontier-making in Colombia’s Amazon department of Caquetá is the focus of this article. Since the mid-nineteenth century, booms and busts of commodity production have been associated with violent struggles as actors have challenged pre-existing orders and authorities. At different times, the area has been controlled by the Catholic Church, the Colombian state, FARC and paramilitary groups, following the different boom-and-bust cycles…
Crafting electricity through social protest: Afro-descendant and indigenous Embera communities protesting for hydroelectric infrastructure in Utría National Park, Colombia
Development infrastructure is often discussed in terms of opposition by local and indigenous communities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, we present the case of local indigenous Embera and Afro-descendant communities in Chocó, Colombia, that protested first to gain, and later to maintain access to electricity produced by the Mutatá hydroelectric dam in Utría National Park. In the context of development politics, taking into account the revised C…
Can direct democracy deliver an alternative to extractivism? An essay on popular consultations
Between 2013 and 2018, ten different municipalities in Colombia held popular consultations in which people were asked to decide whether they wanted or not extractive industries in their territory. Promoted and articulated by environmental movements for the defence of water resources and local livelihoods, popular consultations led to surprising alliances of traditionally opposed actors, that found their interests temporarily aligned in opposition…
Temporalities and Rhythms of Living in Utría National Park, Colombia
This photo essay investigates the political ecology of living in and around Utría National Park, in Colombia's Pacific coast region of Chocó. This area is home to Afro‐descendant and indigenous Embera communities. I use the emic concept of “rhythms” to explore networks and temporalities in subtle elements of pictures displaying local livelihoods, places of dwelling, environmental change, and conservation practices. While acknowledging the complex…
Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood
Sarkki, S., T. Komu, H. I. Heikkinen, N. Acosta García, É. Lépy, and V.-P. Herva. 2016. Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood. Ecology and Society 21(4):14.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08819-210414
Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood
Sarkki, S., T. Komu, H. I. Heikkinen, N. Acosta García, É. Lépy, and V.-P. Herva. 2016. Applying a synthetic approach to the resilience of Finnish reindeer herding as a changing livelihood. Ecology and Society 21(4):14.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08819-210414
Temporalities and Rhythms of Living in Utría National Park, Colombia
This photo essay investigates the political ecology of living in and around Utría National Park, in Colombia's Pacific coast region of Chocó. This area is home to Afro‐descendant and indigenous Embera communities. I use the emic concept of “rhythms” to explore networks and temporalities in subtle elements of pictures displaying local livelihoods, places of dwelling, environmental change, and conservation practices. While acknowledging the complex…
Lectio Praecursoria: Chocó Challenges: Communities Negotiating Matters of Concern and Care on Colombia's Margin
Contemporary World as a Massive Design Failure: A Way Out
Book Review of Escobar, Arturo. 2018. Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy and the Making of Worlds
Crafting electricity through social protest: Afro-descendant and indigenous Embera communities protesting for hydroelectric infrastructure in Utría National Park, Colombia
Development infrastructure is often discussed in terms of opposition by local and indigenous communities. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, we present the case of local indigenous Embera and Afro-descendant communities in Chocó, Colombia, that protested first to gain, and later to maintain access to electricity produced by the Mutatá hydroelectric dam in Utría National Park. In the context of development politics, taking into account the revised C…
Catching the White Fish: Gossip and cocaine on Colombia's Northern Pacific coast
What is life like after drift-cocaine arrives in a village on Colombia's Northern Pacific coast? Drift-cocaine is a side-effect of the interdiction of drug transport boats heading towards Central and North America as part of the US-Colombian War on Drugs. Villagers refer to drift-cocaine as the White Fish. Through ethnographic engagement with Afro-descendant peoples in Chocó, this article explores the effects and relations that emerge from an oce…
The role of external forces in the adoption of aquaculture innovations: An ex-ante case study of fish farming in Colombia's southern Amazonian region
Disagreeing well in an unparadigmatic field: A response to Bodin (2021)
Take back your fish: Questioning NGO-mediated development in Caquetá, Colombia
Could aquaculture lift farmers out of poverty and provide stability and an alternative livelihood to coca farming? Currently, aquaculture is pursued on a moderate scale, with the involvement of around 1500 small-scale farmers, in Caquetá, a department located in the Amazonian bioregion of Colombia. Some 400 farmers are organised in a grassroots non-governmental organisation (NGO) called Acuica. Cultivation and sale of fish provide a means for loc…
The coloniality of power on the green frontier: Commodities and violent territorialisation in Colombia’s Amazon
The dynamic frontier-making in Colombia’s Amazon department of Caquetá is the focus of this article. Since the mid-nineteenth century, booms and busts of commodity production have been associated with violent struggles as actors have challenged pre-existing orders and authorities. At different times, the area has been controlled by the Catholic Church, the Colombian state, FARC and paramilitary groups, following the different boom-and-bust cycles…
Can direct democracy deliver an alternative to extractivism? An essay on popular consultations
Between 2013 and 2018, ten different municipalities in Colombia held popular consultations in which people were asked to decide whether they wanted or not extractive industries in their territory. Promoted and articulated by environmental movements for the defence of water resources and local livelihoods, popular consultations led to surprising alliances of traditionally opposed actors, that found their interests temporarily aligned in opposition…
Oil and water: Unlikely alliances in the opposition to extractive industries during popular consultations in Colombia
In 2017, 97,61% of the people of Cumaral, Colombia, voted in a popular consultation against having the oil industry in their municipality. However, this historical result was challenged by the government in court and ultimately overturned in 2018. By looking into the origins and strategies employed by Cumaral's environmental movement, we argue that their success involved turning a diverse, and even contradictory, collective into a singular voice …
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