Maroon Socioterritorial Movements
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Maroon communities, or communities of descendants of fugitives from slavery, have been long-lasting examples of social movements pursuing political goals through the production and mobilization of space. They have been largely forgotten in academic analyses, however, which, in Latin America, are primarily focused on peasants and indigenous movements. Therefore, drawing on socioterritorial movements readings and maroon studies, this article analyzes how maroon-descendant communities have produced territory in both urban and rural spaces—including areas of forced displacement—locally and transnationally, to survive hegemonies deeply rooted in the legacy of slavery and to achieve political aims. These communities unsettle binary categories of rural and urban socioterritorial movements and monolithic visions of antistate struggle. This transterritorial, rural–urban appropriation of spaces resisting different powers follows the past logic of marronage to achieve freedom and security, re-creating in present times the political vision of historical maroon leaders regarding the construction of a grand Palenque in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.
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- Authors
- Guillen, A. L. Z.
- Affiliations
- Queen Mary University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Guillen, Ana Laura Zavala
- Venue
- Annals of the American Association of Geographers
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2021-10-01
- Volume
- 112
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1123-1138
- ISSN
- 2469-4452 (ISSN-L)
- 2469-4460
- OpenAlex
- W3202743989
- Cited by
- 21
- References
- 65
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- 2026: 4 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 12.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Queen Mary Research Online (Queen Mary University of London) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Economic and Social Research Council UK (ES/, 40/1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Afro-Latin American Studies
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Caribbean history, culture, and politics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Keywords
- maroon communities, socioterritorial movements, marronage, forced displacement, urban-rural boundary, transnational resistance, slavery legacy, Palenque, Spanish-speaking Caribbean, Latin America, social movements, production of space
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