Abstract

OCAMPO, GLORIA ISABEL. URBANIZACIÓN POR INVASIÓN. CONFLICTO URBANO, CLIENTELISMO Y RESISTENCIA EN CÓRDOBA (COLOMBIA). Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2003, vol.39, pp.237-272. ISSN 0486-6525.

THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PATRON-CLIENT CONFIGURATIONS and social movements in a region of the Colombian Caribbean. It traces the historical transformations giving rise to rural migration towards urban centers and its strong connection to local politics, the inhabitants' adjustment to these, and their own adaptation to national politics. It includes an ethnography of a social movement that defies the state, the parameters that define national and local politics, although in its strategic and identity definitions it recurs to idiosyncratic concepts and resources, those purveyed by the state or other hegemonic entities. It emphasizes how social movements can use local definitions of justice, legality and illegality and adjust to circumstances and forces that constrain political expression and social protest.

Keywords : urbanization by invasion; urban conflict; patron client relationships and resistance; Córdoba (Colombia).

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