La disputa por el oro y las transformaciones culturales y territoriales del corregimiento Santa María de Timbiquí Cauca

Abstract

This research work offers a look at the processes of transformation of cultural and territorial practices of the village of Santa María Timbiquí-Cauca from 2010 to 2019 product of the incursion of mining illegal. For this, three fundamental aspects are analyzed, which correspond as first point to the cultural and territorial practices that the community supported before the arrival of illegal mining. Second, the way machinery produces of illegal mining has transformed the territory, and finally, the influence it has had illegal mining in the cultural, environmental and social practice of Santa María Timbiquí-Cauca. From there, the need to reflect on the policy orientations is conceived mining companies and the transformations in the social fabric. This from the approach of the political ecology with the contemplation of the concepts of degrowth, development, territory, culture and cultural practices