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Vizinhanças de parentesco: urbanismo, arquitetura e vida coletiva no Afro-pacífico colombiano

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Abstract

As comunidades afrodescendentes que habitam a região colombiana do Pacífico têm tradições e características culturais que denotam o grande significado que a vida em comunidade representa para elas. A partir dessa premissa e, diante de um processo de pesquisa de longa duração, foram identificados as vizinhanças de parentesco como formas de representação socioespacial da vida coletiva nessas comunidades, fundamentadas em princípios como a solidariedade, a troca e a cooperação. Por meio da lente do urbanismo e da arquitetura vernácula, este artigo explora os princípios básicos da vida coletiva como tradição cultural, partindo da análise do povoamento rural para logo identificar a reinterpretação de características próprias desse povoamento nos núcleos urbanos. Recorrendo a análises tipológicas em diversas escalas e em diversos âmbitos, busca-se demonstrar a persistência das vizinhanças de parentesco até hoje e contribuir ao debate sobre as políticas públicas que vem desconhecendo as tradições culturais arraigadas nesses territórios, mediante a imposição de um urbanismo e de uma arquitetura genéricos nos projetos de moradia social.

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The article argues that “vizinhanças de parentesco” (parental neighborhoods) are a persistent socio-spatial form of collective life among Afro-descendant communities in Colombia’s Pacific region, rooted in rural kinship-based settlement and reinterpreted in urban peripheries. It contends that state social-housing and macroprojects ignore these cultural and spatial traditions, threatening ancestral habitat and community life.

Key findings

  • The paper identifies “vizinhanças de parentesco” as the socio-spatial cell of collective life in Colombia’s Afro-Pacific: clusters of houses belonging to the same parental group or trunk, grounded in solidarity, exchange, and cooperation; rural settlements are river/sea-oriented, small and dispersed, with public spaces more important than private ones and first settlers linked by blood or ritual kinship.
  • It documents inheritance-in-life: new households build on paternal or maternal land transferred while owners are alive, keeping younger generations near parents and grandparents and expanding the neighborhood over time.
  • In cities such as Buenaventura, Quibdó, and Tumaco (populations above 100,000), these neighborhoods persist through subdivision of original plots or addition/purchase of neighboring lands, producing high occupancy, rising residential density, and degraded habitability.
  • It argues that recent social-housing projects and Macroproyectos de Interés Social Nacional (MISN) ignore Afro-Pacific cultural and spatial traditions. In Buenaventura’s MISN San Antonio, 3,400 families in El Cascajal are slated for relocation due to tsunami risk; the first stage moved 568 families and 250 houses were begun for female heads of household/displaced families, but four years after relocation promised services and resources had not been built.

Methods

  • Qualitative, long-duration field research along the Colombian Pacific coast, mainly between 1978 and 2010, across seven coastal zones; based on prior cataloging of spatial components of Pacific architectural heritage and analysis of physical-spatial and sociocultural features of rural and urban habitat.
  • Uses typological analysis at multiple scales and settings, drawing on earlier work by Nina de Friedemann, Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda, and Mosquera & Aprile-Gniset; traces rural settlement and housing transformations and their urban reinterpretation.
  • No quantitative sampling or statistical modeling is described; policy examples (MISN San Antonio, La Yesca) are discussed as cases.

Limitations

  • The paper does not state a formal limitations section.
  • Evident from the text: the study relies on long-term qualitative fieldwork and author archives, without described systematic sampling or quantitative measurement; historical and typological claims are interpretive.
  • Evident from the text: the policy critique is illustrated by selected cases (MISN San Antonio and La Yesca) rather than a systematic evaluation of all social-housing projects, and generalizability beyond Colombia’s Pacific Afro-descendant communities is not established.

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Crossref · 10.9771/lj.v2i0.58342

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    Durante a época colonial, uma das principais características dos assentamentos do Afro-Pacífico foi a consolidação dos territórios coletivos, contrapostos à ideia de propriedade privada imposta pela coroa espanhola.

    “De fato, durante a época colonial, uma das principais características dos assentamentos do Afro-Pacífico foi a consolidação dos territórios coletivos, contrapostos à ideia de propriedade privada imposta pela coroa espanhola como parte do processo fundacional.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    Rural migration in Latin America accelerated after the 1930s and in Colombia reached the category of a massive exodus driven by violence in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, with less intensity in the Pacific region than in Andean rural territories.

    “A migração dos habitantes do campo que, na América Latina acelerou-se depois da década dos anos trinta e que, na Colômbia, alcançou a categoria de êxodo massivo impulsionado pela violência nos anos 1940, 1950 e 1960, teve menor intensidade na região do Pacífico que em territórios rurais andinos.”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    Since the last decades of the 20th century, the most important cities of the Pacific coast, as well as capitals near the coast, received a significant number of forced migrant peasants dispossessed of their territories as a result of the armed conflict or of territorial control activities inherent to narcotrafficking and illegal exploitation of natural resources.

    “No entanto, desde as últimas décadas do século XX, as cidades mais importantes do litoral Pacífico, assim como as capitais próximas ao litoral, foram receptoras de um número importante de campesinos migrantes forçados que foram despojados de seus territórios em decorrência do conflito armado ou por atividades de controle territorial inerentes ao narcotráfico e à exploração ilegal de recursos nat”
  • The paper relies on this without support.

    Colombia openly recognized itself as a multicultural nation.

    “em um país como a Colômbia, que se reconheceu abertamente como uma nação multicultural”
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Metadata

Authors
Torres, G. M., & Calderón, Á. M. F.
Affiliations
Universidad del Valle (CO)
Venue
Laje
Published
2023-12-06
Volume
2
Issue
2
Pages
172-197
ISSN
2965-4904 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4389819383
Cited by
0
References
2
FWCI
0.00
Type
journal article
Language
pt
Open access
Locations
Laje (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Architecture and Cultural Influences
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Architecture › Architecture, Modernity, and Design
  • Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Latin American Urban Studies
Keywords
Afro-descendant communities, Colombian Pacific region, collective life, socio-spatial representations, vernacular architecture, urbanism, rural settlement patterns, social housing, cultural traditions, public policy, generic architecture

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