Dispossession and the Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession in Nueva Colonia (2021)
The region, on Colombia’s northwestern Caribbean coast, is the heartland of the country’s banana industry. Urabá is known for extreme political violence, which has gripped the region since the 1980s. Massacres and paramilitary groups have driven away thousands, who left behind their homes and agricultural land. The project shows how dispossession occurred in the shadow of armed repression, massacres, and terror spread by private paramilitary forces, serving local and international banana producers under the protection of the Colombian military. It exposes how these producers benefited from the dispossession of campesinos. -FA
Director: Forensic Architecture
Runtime: 9 min
Release Date: December 10, 2021
Original Language: en
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Frequently Asked Questions
- What is Dispossession and the Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession in Nueva Colonia about?
- The region, on Colombia’s northwestern Caribbean coast, is the heartland of the country’s banana industry. Urabá is known for extreme political violence, which has gripped the region since the 1980s. Massacres and paramilitary groups have driven away thousands, who left behind their homes and agricultural land. The project shows how dispossession occurred in the shadow of armed repression, massacres, and terror spread by private paramilitary forces, serving local and international banana producers under the protection of the Colombian military. It exposes how these producers benefited from the dispossession of campesinos. -FA
- Who directed Dispossession and the Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession in Nueva Colonia?
- Dispossession and the Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession in Nueva Colonia was directed by Forensic Architecture.
- How long is Dispossession and the Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession in Nueva Colonia?
- Dispossession and the Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession in Nueva Colonia has a runtime of 9m (9 minutes).