@phdthesis{21830f88-883f-4b6f-bac4-3b443e306cec,
  abstract     = {{My thesis is an inquiry into the daily experiences of civil society actors in relation to how armed conflict, extractivism, and resistance shaped the Colombian Andinoamazonia during the country’s current peacebuilding cycle. Despite two dozen peace agreements, and the signing of a comprehensive agreement in 2016, Colombia’s protracted armed conflict did not end. The Colombian Andinoamazonia, a bioculturally diverse region historically affected by the armed conflict, was not exempt and became one of the deadliest places in the world to defend land and cultural rights. My research is an ethnographic account about representations and enactments of people-place relations as they configure the Colombian Andinoamazonia in everyday life. In short, I seek to understand how these processes of territorial configuration are experienced in this bioculturally rich and conflict-affected place. <br/>The theoretical framework conceptualizes territorial configuration and shows how I operationalize it to the case of the Andinoamazonia. It is inspired by scholarship advancing discussions about territorio/territory, territorialization and resource control, and Andinoamazonic territorialities mainly within human geography and political ecology. I also draw from a wider range of scholarship on territorio/territory from Latin American human geography and political ecology. The empirical material is the result of several rounds of fieldwork in 2022-2024, where I used ethnographic methods like participant observation, go-alongs, and document collection. Narrative analysis, through a process of ethnographic abduction or retroductive reasoning, constituted the main strategy to analyse the empirical material.<br/>I find that the Colombian Andinoamazonia has been historically configured by the heterogenous dynamics of armed conflict, extractivism, and resistance. During the current peacebuilding cycle, the reconfiguration of armed conflict and the opening of a new extractivist frontier in the Colombian Andinoamazonia have driven experiences of pacification. I define pacification as a deliberate strategy deployed by armed actors and a multinational corporation to conceal ancestral and rooted ways of living in the Andinoamazonia to impose territorial orders that enable armed conflict and extractivism. I also find that a confluence of peoples and communities in defense of the Andinoamazonia shape this place in daily life through practices of re-existence as they oppose imposed territorialities while enacting alternatives. Therefore, the main contribution of my research is an in-depth analysis about place-based approaches to sustainability science where I unpack how places are configured and how the imposition of territorialities of extraction or war result from the expansion/invasion of practices that conceal and threaten place-based ways of life.<br/>}},
  author       = {{Samper, Juan Antonio}},
  isbn         = {{978-91-8104-987-9}},
  keywords     = {{Territorial configuration; Re-existence; Social mobilisation; Amazon; Colombia; Territoriell konfiguration; Re-existens; Social mobilisering; Amazonas; Colombia}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  publisher    = {{LUCSUS, Lund University}},
  school       = {{Lund University}},
  title        = {{"We live in the territorio, and it lives in us" : Pacification, re-existence, and territorial configuration in the Colombian Andinoamazonia}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/249381076/Juan_Antonio_Samper_-_WEBB.pdf}},
  year         = {{2026}},
}