Destabilising geographies in Colombia: Trajectories and perspectives

Colombia has recently witnessed the emergence of new geographies, which opens new scenarios of analysis and political contexts leading to a better understanding of the multiplicity of humans–non‐humans and their territories, territorialities and their rights. These geographies enter dialogue with other disciplinary trajectories and Indigenous and Afro‐descendant perspectives. These new perspectives also interact with critical, feminist and decolonial geographies. These encounters have led to the arrival of new approaches, which I call destabilising geographies. The proposals positioned from these new perspectives look to decolonise the founding binary categories of geography. They are perspectives and proposals that destabilise institutionalised visions of geography because they emerge with and from social processes and movements that require political spaces and the recognition of territorial and environmental rights. These geographies propose an opening to other ontologies and epistemologies that contribute to the complexity of the categories of territory, body‐territory, human–non‐human territories, the political and the collective. They also reveal the racial territorial processes of extractive dynamics and armed conflict. In this text, I develop the following emergences: dissident feminist geographies, geographies of racialised extractivism, Black geographies and Indigenous relational spatialities. These reflections are based on my experience of over 16 years of teaching in the geography programme at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Colombian has recently witnessed of the emergence of new geographies, which opens new scenarios of analysis and political contexts that lead to a better understanding of the multiplicity of humans‐non‐humans and their territories, territorialities, and their rights. I call these geographies, destabilising geographies because propose an opening to other ontologies and epistemologies that contribute to the complexity of the categories of territory, body‐territory, human‐non‐human territories, the political, and the collective. I develop the following emergences: dissident feminist geographies, geographies of racialized extractivism, black geographies, and indigenous relational spacialities.