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Accepted Paper:
An approach to maritime extractivism implications on Colombian Caribbean ethnic and peasant communities
Ana Isabel Marquez-Perez
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Caribe)
This paper offers a diachronic approach to the implications of maritime extractivism on Colombian Caribbean maritime peasant, Afro-descendant and indigenous communities, analyzing how different activities promote dispossession and blue grabbing, but also considering communities resistances.
Paper long abstract:
This paper offers an approach to the implications of maritime extractivism on Colombian Caribbean maritime peasant, Afro-descendant and indigenous communities. Through a general look at what has been happening on the region during the last century (and what is currently happening), and some localized examples, it shows the increasing processes of dispossession and blue grabbing experienced by these communities. Different extractivist economical activities such as port infrastructure, oil, mining, industrial fishing and mass tourism, many of them aggravated by previous situations of war and violence, are analysed, considering also how they currently worsen with the gradual entry into national public policy, of notions such as growth and blue economy. The paper finishes with a reflection on the various forms of resistance that these communities use today to face the dispossession of their places of life associated with the sea and the coast.