Terror and Geography: Examining multiples Spatialities in a Terrorized World
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Geography; Terror; Terrorism; Colombian Pacific.Abstract
In this article, I want to offer, first, a kind of historiographic tour through the concepts of terror and terrorism and then show how these concepts have been thought from geography. Here I understand geography in two senses. On one hand, to the way in which we have related to the speeches of the “war on terror” from the discipline of geography. On the other hand, I aim to illustrate how a broader geographical and critical thinking about terror and would allow us to get out of the conceptual and intellectual reduction of the dominant discourses of the “war on terror” discourses has taken. For this, I offer a conceptual framework that I have called “geographies of terror”, which applies to the case of the terror that the black communities live in the region of the Colombian Pacific.
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