Abstract

MEZA, CARLOS ANDRÉS. CROSSROADS AND CONFLICT. URBANIZATION, CONSERVATION AND RURALITY IN THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS OF BOGOTÁ. Rev. colomb. antropol. [online]. 2008, vol.44, n.2, pp.439-480. ISSN 0486-6525.

The article explores the eastern mountains of Bogotá as a complex of territoriality regimes and socio-historical heterogeneous and conflicting experiences through time. The Teusacá river basin is the micro regional context in the transition between Bogotá city and the Eastern plains. It serves as a case study to identify overlapping and conflicting territorialities associated with nature conservation, urban expansion and rural life. The analysis of the construction of different territorial regimes during the last century allows a glimpse at the dilemmas and conflicts that characterize the Eastern mountains of Bogotá in this new century

Keywords : Landscape; territoriality; conservation; urbanization; peasants; conflict.

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