SOCIAL MINEFIELDS

SOCIAL MINEFIELDS. SUMMARY. DAVID GERARDO LÓPEZ MARTÍNEZ. 2114350 The territories in which those colflicts occur are so reach in natural resources. In the book DERECHOS ENTERRADOS of Julieta Lemaitre and Andes Universities, the researchers identified this... More

SOCIAL MINEFIELDS. SUMMARY. DAVID GERARDO LÓPEZ MARTÍNEZ. 2114350 The territories in which those colflicts occur are so reach in natural resources. In the book DERECHOS ENTERRADOS of Julieta Lemaitre and Andes Universities, the researchers identified this situation in Urabá, Urrá and Guapi.  Because of wealth and so intensive social dynamics, socioenvironmental conflicts take place there. The main problematic is the cultural, ethnical, envoronmental and social destruction that is behind it.  Those territories are called social minefields by César Rodriguez Garavito. These territories present a complex and conflictive dynamic. In these context interact together transnational companies interested in natural resources extraction, state forces of security, armed ilegal actors and peasant and ethnical communities. In sociological terms, we have a reach social champ, like Pierre Bourdieu said. This concept corresponds to a historical reality in which interacts actors with power positions, Less