Webinario Trochas, Trampolines Y Elefantes Blancos: Discursos Y Politicas De La Infraestructura En La Amazonia Colombiana

Simon Uribe, professor of the Urban Management and Development program at the Universidad del Rosario in Colombia, spoke about the practices and processes of state building in the Colombian Amazon through roads and highways. At different times, this infrastructure has been synonymous with land grabbing, racial violence, dispossession, deforestation and extraction, and decimation of traditional…