The “End” of the Tierra Caliente

Abstract

This article outlines an analysis of the imaginary of tropical American nature as built from the colonial gaze, as a starting point for understanding the control and appropriation of nature. This has legitimised, since the dawn of Modernity and up to present-day Latin America (and specifically Colombia and its territories), a discourse based on dispossession and racial violence, in the interests of the further growth of the global capitalist system.

Keywords

• decolonialism
• nature
• capitalism
• colombia
• greenhouse
• modernity
• control
• enlightenment
• anthropocene
• armed conflict