The Nature of Borders. Borders in Nature.
April 9th at 1 PM
Virtual Rooms open 15 min. before sessions
The Nature of Borders. Borders in Nature
Ulrich Oslender, , Associate Professor, Florida International University
Legislation passed in 1993 granted collective land rights to rural black communities living in the tropical rainforest region of Colombia’s Pacific lowlands. Delimiting the boundaries for these land titles proved an ambiguous process. While the state conceives of borders as fixed in space, for rural Afro-Colombians and neighboring indigenous populations the idea of a boundary is much more fluid and less exclusionary. In this talk I look at some of the controversies that arose over these territorial negotiations between black communities and the state in what is regarded as one of the top biodiversity hotspots in the world.
Presenter's Biography
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Ulrich Oslender is a political and cultural geographer with regional interests in Latin America. He gained his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Glasgow (Scotland), and is currently Associate Professor of Geography in the Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University in Miami, where he is also Affiliated Faculty at the African and African Diaspora Studies Program (AADS), and the Latin American and Caribbean Center (LACC). He has published over fifty articles and book chapters in both English and Spanish, mostly in relation to social movement theory and political geography. He has authored two books, most recently The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space (Duke University Press, 2016), and co-edited Bridging Scholarship and Activism: Reflections from the Frontlines of Collaborative Research (Michigan State University Press, 2015). He has also frequently worked with the media and produced, amongst others, programs on black cultural politics in Colombia for the BBC World Service. |
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