Movilización social, medioambiental en la amazonia colombiana

Abstract

This document is the product of research assistance in the inter-institutional project Experiences of communication and development on the environment in Colombia and aims during its first chapter to investigate the way in which the social actors of the Colombian Amazon have resorted to the forms of social mobilization as a mechanism that allows them to express their disagreement with the various problems identified in the field of the environment. In accordance with the methodology proposed in the inter-institutional project, after the probabilistic sampling work, it is possible to identify an organization that generates environmental social mobilization in the Amazon with the characteristics found in the first chapter. This is how the development of ethnographic fieldwork allows us to build in the second chapter an approach to the Codeba case study as a mobilization and social mobilizer. The methodology for the realization of this document starts from the documentary review and investigation, through various authors, among them Archila and Uruburu, on the subject of social movements, as expressions of nonconformity and fight against injustices, and Senso, Vieco, Rodríguez and Krohling in terms of empowerment, development, social movements, citizenship and education. He also attends various actions documented through various media on the internet, among others, that account for the actions carried out by the inhabitants of the Colombian Amazon region, where various indigenous groups, public and private institutions, organizations non-governmental and international organizations, among others. With these inputs, use and reading of the  information collected through ethnographic fieldwork to understand the Codeba case as an institutional social actor of indigenous leadership in the defense processes of Amazon biodiversity. As a result, some reflections on environmental problems are addressed, marked in the characteristics of social mobilization identified in the world, and especially in the Colombian Amazon region, whose greater representativeness is on the side of indigenous groups, for which reason it culminates with a zoom from the context to the work of the Codeba corporation as a case study.