Peasant identity and the esthetics of rooting as resistance

Abstract

The peasant communities of the rural area of ​​Buga in the villages of El Placer, La Venta and San Agustín have in common that most of their first inhabitants come from Boyacá and Santander. To live there they have had to go through an economic, social and political process, in which they have managed to build the traditional peasant farm in the modern world, with all the challenges that this implies. They have had to resist the paramilitary incursion of the Calima Bloc and the neoliberal policies of the Colombian State. This work aims to explore how this resistance has been forged from the point of view of the aesthetics of the rooting, concept that is built from the peasant identity, the relationship with the environment and with others, and the aesthetic configurations of the resistance in a world where being a peasant is increasingly difficult. To systematize the information gathered about the community, the practical theoretical orientations of Jara Holliday were used. It was found that there is an aesthetics of the rooting that has had a great development and significant achievements in the defense of the territory and the rights of the peasants, and that maintaining this resistance is increasingly difficult due to the challenges involved for young peasants to remain in the territories, because the modern world is always tempting them to leave the territory, to adopt other aesthetics and to have other perspectives and other dreams where the field does not figure as a project of life.