Gestión : ambivalence and temporalities of kinship and politics in the Colombian Amazon
Date
01/10/2023Metadata
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In the city of Mocoa in the Colombian Amazon, indigenous leaders capture desired resources for their communities using skilful navigation and engagement in the diverse institutional landscape of this bureaucratic centre of the Putumayo region. Interactions between these leaders and multiple political actors are locally known as gestión. In this article, we explore this ethnographic category by analysing the ways in which gestión interweaves kinship, politics and temporality. Describing gestión in the lives of two cousins, two Inga women who are both experienced leaders, we argue that it entails generating and fostering friendships and alliances by means of kinship networks and practices, which are central to capturing resources and maintaining relationships among ethnic leaders and communities, where mistrust is part of political dynamics and family life. We also show how leaders incorporate the temporalities of gestión into their lives through kinship notions to become powerful political agents in Mocoa.
Citation
Castellanos , D & Erazo , C 2023 , ' Gestión : ambivalence and temporalities of kinship and politics in the Colombian Amazon ' , Ethnos , vol. 88 , no. 5 , pp. 1014-1035 . https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2021.2009535
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Ethnos
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Peer reviewed
ISSN
0014-1844Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2021.2009535
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Funding: This research was conducted as part of the project ‘Análisis de las relaciones entre construcciones degénero y programas de asistencia social en el suroccidente colombiano’ (Analysis of the RelationsBetween Gender Constructions and Social Assistance Programmes in Southwestern Colombia), which was realised between 2018 and 2020 (principal investigators were Dr Carolina Borda Niño, Dr Daniela Castellanos Montes, and Dr Blanca Zuluaga Díaz) and funded by the inter-institutional alliance between Universidad Icesi and Fundación WWB Colombia.Collections
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