Effects of extractivism conflicts on women's body-territory in the Bajo Cauca region of Antioquia: women and gold mining in the Nechí riverbed.
This case study reflects on the embodied ways in which women living in Bajo Cauca Antioquia, Colombia, experience the changes in the territory they inhabit as changes that also leave traces in their bodies. Recognizing the body as a territory that is linked and related to a geographical macro-territory where extractive dynamics are developed, attention is focused on the relationship between gold mining and the daily lives of the women of Bajo Cauca, and the differentiated affectations of the extractive dynamics are identified. The study was developed in a participatory manner with 24 women leaders from the municipalities of Nechí and El Bagre, with whom we dialogued about territory, community decision-making, the house and the body. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
