Abstract

LYONS, Kristina Marie. Chemical Wars in Colombia, Ecologies of Evidence, and Feeling-Enacting Practices of Justice. univ.humanist. [online]. 2017, n.84, pp.203-234. ISSN 0120-4807.  https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.uh84.gqce.

Aerial fumigation with glyphosate was a key component in the US-Colombia shared antidrug policy until 2015. This paper reveals an ethnographic follow-up of complaints made by farmers from Putumayo, who seek reparation after the aereal spraying of their legal agroforestry fields. It shows how the evidence around these wars zones -seedbeds, food crops, GPS coordinates, and bureaucratic documents- gives account of glyphosate’s violent and toxic traces. In the face of a systematic governmental rejection of their complaints, some farmers have sought to transform the chemically-altered ecologies of their territories through various practices. These daily acts of justice are restorative practices that produce probative ecologies, which in turn assert the government’s responsibility, while feelingenacting alternative forms of justice.

Keywords : aerial spraying; ecologies of evidence; War on Drugs; socioecological and restorative justice(s); feminist science studies.

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