Abstract

BUITRAGO BERMUDEZ, Oscar. Capitalist Territorial Competitiveness and Water Dispossession in the Metropolitan Area of Influence of Cali (Colombia). Cuad. Geogr. Rev. Colomb. Geogr. [online]. 2016, vol.25, n.2, pp.237-250. ISSN 0121-215X.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rcdg.v25n2.54719.

The proposal for the concept of territorial platform of capitalist competitiveness starts with a criticism of the reduced and biased form of understanding the concept of territory in the practice of dispossession of water, specifically, and of nature, in general. To understand the process of the plundering and abuse of natural wealth by the State and capitalists on local societies, the article proposes the concept of the territorial platform of capitalist competitiveness, understood as a territorialities system that articulates the periphery areas to the global capital. In this approach, the dispossession of water takes place in the context of the contradictions of the capitalist economic model established in Colombia. In the field of environmental water management, the main evidence of the presence of the capitalist territorial platform of competitiveness is the loss of environmental and departmental institutions, which promotes the expansion of the sugarcane territory.

Keywords : water; agribusiness; dispossession; power; territory.

        · abstract in Spanish | Portuguese     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )