Reconstrucción del tejido social después de un desastremujeres y territorio en la avalancha del Rio Páez 1994. Una mirada feminista de la realidad

Résumé

This research concerns the responses to disasters caused by physical events (earthquake), particularly, the case of the floods and landslide of the River Paez in 1994, affecting the indigenous community of nasa in the region of Tierradentro (Department of Cauca). This dissertation aims at understanding the different reactions and responses of this community, and the many other institutional actors and stakeholders involved, almost 20 years after the events, focusing on two resettlements of the nasa community: Muse Ukwe (Tierra plana) and Juan Tama.It has been found that the institutional agencies and governmental programs focus exclusively on the physical destruction, thus concentrating only on “rebuilding” the place; this view, however, overlook key cultural, social and political aspects of the process of reconstruction. Albeit there is a number of studies on reconstruction after natural disasters, there are few investigations about the middle and long term consequences of the processes by which a community rebuild themselves after this events. In particular, this research has identified the role of women in the reconstruction of the territory (spacial, physical, social and cultural). This dissertation aims at filling this gap in the literature by examining the notion of disaster, and by studying the responses to this events beyond the immediate reactions toward middle and long term views...