Colective actions and conflicts in Buenaventura: Conceptual conciderations for interpretation of complex reality.

Montoya Duque, Gloria Inés (Compiler) | 2012

The social movements and conflicts that place Buenaventura as the main scenery, constitutes the focus of the analysis concerning with the results of an investigation made by a group of professors and students from the Sociology Program and that was guided by Professor Gloria Montoya. The most important port in Colombia has been evaluated as the scenery where people manifest different types of conflict, as well as, the social collective action headed to achieve less excluding conditions and looking to overcome the social inequity. lt also expresses the control and domination of the territory according with the social actor's lnterest. On the other hand, they manifest a strong tension far the control and domination of the territory. The research has been done between the periods of 2008 to 2012.