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| Paper authors | Juan Ricardo Aparicio |
| In panel on | Humanitarian action in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC): Its governance and peculiarities in the region |
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Abstract
This paper wants to critically analyze the humanitarian interventions emerging in the Colombian Caribbean archipelago of San Andres, Providence and St. Catalina islands by focusing on both the structural-historical and the conjunctural dimension where the history of the whole archipelago, its various hurricanes and reconstructions must be set. We want to understand the history behind the ultimate and constitutive condition of vulnerability (Bankoff and Hlhorst 2022) of the archipelago when facing what are not only repeating and even predictable and not only natural disasters. But our analysis is complemented by approaching the whole conjuncture of the disaster and reconstruction discourses and practices as an arena of dispute between different actors, institutions, meanings and power struggles. Both dimensions are needed to understand how the latter is shaped by both structural-historical dimensions that make some regions more vulnerable than others when facing what are never just and not only natural disasters. A core discussion here is how what are not only natural disasters are framed by different individual, collectives and institutions and what do responses tell us about the nature of particular technologies of government (Siddiqi 2018), including the economies of abandonment (Povinelli 2011).
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