TY - JOUR
T1 - Maroon Socioterritorial Movements
AU - Zavala Guillen, Ana Laura
N1 - Funding information: This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council UK through Grant Reference ES/T007540/1; The University of Sheffield through Grant Reference University PrizeScholarship; The British Academy UK through Grant Reference Application PF20\100040.
PY - 2022/5/19
Y1 - 2022/5/19
N2 - Maroon communities, or communities of descendants of fugitives from slavery, have been long-lasting examples of social movements pursuing political goals through the production and mobilization of space. They have been largely forgotten in academic analyses, however, which, in Latin America, are primarily focused on peasants and indigenous movements. Therefore, drawing on socioterritorial movements readings and maroon studies, this article analyzes how maroon-descendant communities have produced territory in both urban and rural spaces—including areas of forced displacement—locally and transnationally, to survive hegemonies deeply rooted in the legacy of slavery and to achieve political aims. These communities unsettle binary categories of rural and urban socioterritorial movements and monolithic visions of antistate struggle. This transterritorial, rural–urban appropriation of spaces resisting different powers follows the past logic of marronage to achieve freedom and security, re-creating in present times the political vision of historical maroon leaders regarding the construction of a grand Palenque in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.
AB - Maroon communities, or communities of descendants of fugitives from slavery, have been long-lasting examples of social movements pursuing political goals through the production and mobilization of space. They have been largely forgotten in academic analyses, however, which, in Latin America, are primarily focused on peasants and indigenous movements. Therefore, drawing on socioterritorial movements readings and maroon studies, this article analyzes how maroon-descendant communities have produced territory in both urban and rural spaces—including areas of forced displacement—locally and transnationally, to survive hegemonies deeply rooted in the legacy of slavery and to achieve political aims. These communities unsettle binary categories of rural and urban socioterritorial movements and monolithic visions of antistate struggle. This transterritorial, rural–urban appropriation of spaces resisting different powers follows the past logic of marronage to achieve freedom and security, re-creating in present times the political vision of historical maroon leaders regarding the construction of a grand Palenque in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.
U2 - 10.1080/24694452.2021.1959293
DO - 10.1080/24694452.2021.1959293
M3 - Article
SN - 2469-4452
VL - 112
SP - 1123
EP - 1138
JO - Annals of the American Association of Geographers
JF - Annals of the American Association of Geographers
IS - 4
ER -