Puntos de Encuentro
Exercising Active Forms of Citizenship in Buenaventura, Colombia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18940656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carlos Alberto Valderrama Rentería (0000-0001-8838-8350, Icesi University, corresponding author), Sandra Patricia Palacios Moreno (Icesi University), S Moreno (0000-0001-5302-2770, Icesi University) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 332-350 |
| Publication date | 2026-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Research Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8791 • E-ISSN: 1542-4278 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/lar.2025.10069 |
| OpenAlex | W4411969343 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 30 |
The present article focuses on a place-based repertoire of contention known as Punto de Encuentro, designed to defend a rural-urban territory against racialized processes of economic globalization and armed conflicts in Colombia. The article suggests that citizenship becomes meaningful when Afro-Colombians exercise their rights to their territories. To support this argument, the article delves into the 2017 civic strike mobilizations that reclaimed the city space of Buenaventura as a territory of life where Afro-Colombians can live with dignity and in peace. As the article describes, the civic strike activists created four crucial social participation processes: the crafting of a social movement, the production of a place-based knowledge from past struggles, the construction of a common ethical and political framework, and Puntos de Encuentro as places of social and cultural resistance
Art · Citizenship · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Traditional medicine · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Medicine · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography · Philippine History and Culture
Between resistance and revolution
Militants and Citizens
Contentious Performances
Citizenship
Choke Points
Afro-Latinoamérica, 1800-2000
Spaces of Contention
Beyond Civil Society
Racismo ambiental
Prácticas de memoria en defensa de la vida y el territorio en Buenaventura, Colombia (1960-2018)
Western modernity, cities, and race
Submergence
Social movements
Rethinking Authoritarian Power
Critical geopolitics and terrains of resistance
Culture sits in places
Global flows and everyday violence in urban space
Indigenous Inclusion/Black Exclusion
Violencias contra las mujeres negras
The right to the city
De lo global a lo local en los repertorios de acción de las organizaciones negras frente al conflicto armado en Buenaventura
Political Process and the Development of Black Insurgency, 1930-1970
Shifting spaces of contention
Whose City Is It? Globalization and the Formation of New Claims
Insurgent Citizenship in an Era of Global Urban Peripheries
Ecologies of Social Movements
Geographies of death
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |