Kanunka: construcción de un espacio de diferencia ante los megaproyectos en San Juan del Cesar 

Abstract

Thinking or talking about territories, places or spaces has been become fundamental when it comes to locating concrete and particular realities that are still assembled to the dynamics of globality and coloniality. Realities that manifest the differences between ways of life of dominant cultures and cultures alternate to these. Among these realities is that of a unique place in its diversity cultural, social, biological and natural: the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, named after the West or conceived as Be nenulang in the worldview of the indigenous peoples who inhabit it. The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, like other places in Colombia, it has been an expression of the paradoxical situation that embodies two scenarios: the recognition of rights ethnic and territorial in national and international legal blocks and the adoption of neoliberal economies in Latin American countries, bringing with it deterritorialization as a mechanism for expansion of capitalism. For the present investigation, deterritorialization is the process by which the Nation and the groups of global political and economic power for the sake of expand capitalism, break into the territory of communities to convert it into feasible exploitation land through different ways of dispossession, which weaken the political and cultural gear on the territory, built by the communities from their worldview.