A peasant guerrilla without environmental discourse: the lost opportunity of the fArc-ep during the peace talks in Havana
This article proposes to contribute to the debate on the relationship between the peace process and deforestation in Colombia. It addresses this issue with a description of the peasant-inspired environmental practices that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People’s Army (Farc-eP) develope...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Acta Sociológica |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/82784 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/ras/article/view/82784 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Farc deforestation environmental policy Colombia peace discourse analysis deforestación política ambiental paz análisis de discurso. FARC desmatamento Colômbia análise de discurso |
| Sumario: | This article proposes to contribute to the debate on the relationship between the peace process and deforestation in Colombia. It addresses this issue with a description of the peasant-inspired environmental practices that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - People’s Army (Farc-eP) developed in the peripheral departments of the country, favoring the protection of forest cover. It compares this finding with an analysis of the speeches that the Farc-eP produced between 2004 and 2016 to reveal that the insurgent group built its environmental paradigm from a vision anchored in the produc- tivist past of Marxism. Consequently, the article maintains that the Farc-eP remained out of step with environmental movements during the peace talks in Havana. The insurgency then lost a historic opportunity to step out of their “counterpublic” position and contribute to the construction of a “greener” final agreement. The conclusion of the article opens perspectives to safeguard the threatened environmental knowledge of the ex-guerrillas, encouraging their reincorporation to civil life and reforming public policies for the protection of forests in Colombia |
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