Hinche: land of peace, centre of peasant knowledge. Walking in utopia

Abstract

This paper takes a socio-critical perspective to offer a socio-geographical contextualization of Colombia. The research is based on a systematization of experiences and reveals some socio-historical aspects that point to the importance of placing land tenure at the heart of the debate, a topic that has generated disputes where external as well as domestic interests have been identified.

This issue has become the turning point where, despite a climate of tension among various forces, the experience of a group of peasant women working together for peace (in, from, by, and for their territory) is recovered and made visible. Through their own knowledge, they have reconstructed the social fabric and the recovery of community spaces that had been taken away by different armed groups during the partial collapse of the State. This is a positive peace experience that, according to De Roux (2018) is "at the same time limited, vulnerable, open to criticism. Supporting it is an act of audacity, not recklessness; it is a moral act because the country is living moments of uncertainty".