Ser y Tener: Engendering Development and Ethnicity in the Pacific Lowlands of Colômbia

Abstract

In this paper I explore how Afro-Colombian women’s organizations and networks shape and are shaped by state initiatives to develop and modernize the Pacific region. I argue that in doing so these mobilize and go beyond the developmentalist rhetoric of the state and the discourse of gendered black ethnicity and tradition of black political organizations in the region.

Keywords

• mulheres afro-colombianas
• estratégias de desenvolvimento
• políticas étnicas e de gênero