From litigation to the field: anthropology for social transformation. An experience on litigating anthropology in southern Acandi

Abstract

This article presents some research progress regarding the identification of territorial governance practices developed by black communities in a context of internal armed conflict in Colombia. Especially, it focuses on addressing the process of building the research question based on the co-work between the researcher and the communitarian organization, the Consejo Comunitario de Comunidades Negras de la Cuenca del río Tolo y Zona costera Sur- COCOMASUR (Colombian Caribbean), highlighting also the contrasts between the categories of analysis and the initial findings in the fieldwork.