Tatiana Roa Avendaño
The path from resistance towards alternatives to development. Three Colombian experiences. This research seeks to analyse and understand processes of social resistance to mining, agro-industrial and infrastructure projects that are part of an extractive model and that cause structural transformations of the territories, affecting people's health, ecosystems and lives. I am particularly interested in struggles that are organised "from below" and in search of community processes that seek to ensure conditions of resistance and re-existence in their territories and to deepen their culture. That is, I am referring to struggles that give rise to more everyday and localised forms of resistance, that collectively deploy human capacities for social transformation and rebuild their local livelihoods in order to create conditions to remain in their territory.