Militarisation Under COVID-19: Understanding the Differential Impact of Lockdown on the Forests of Colombia

Drawing on qualitative analysis and anthropological histories, we argue that deforestation rates in the Inter-Andean Valleys and in the Amazon Belt of Colombia reflect the specific role of the military in different articulations of the political forest along with new connections between conservation...

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Autores principales:	Mónica Amador-Jiménez, Naomi Millner
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	forest militarization COVID19 deforestation Colombia necropolitics Social Sciences H
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7397cc6c6e394482bcc81a7c7d0d8a582021-12-01T14:06:35ZMilitarisation Under COVID-19: Understanding the Differential Impact of Lockdown on the Forests of Colombia2673-272610.3389/fhumd.2021.769365https://doaj.org/article/7397cc6c6e394482bcc81a7c7d0d8a582021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fhumd.2021.769365/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/2673-2726Drawing on qualitative analysis and anthropological histories, we argue that deforestation rates in the Inter-Andean Valleys and in the Amazon Belt of Colombia reflect the specific role of the military in different articulations of the political forest along with new connections between conservation and the war on drugs. This paper examines the increase in deforestation in Colombia in 2020 that partially coincided with the “lockdown” imposed to curb the spread of COVID-19. Early media analysis linked this with the redeployment of military forces away from forest protection to impose lockdown restrictions. However, closer investigation reveals significant regional variation in both the reorganisation of military groups, and in the rate at which deforestation has materialised; military presence has increased in some regions, while in others deforestation has increased. To explain this, we unpack the “biopolitical” dimensions of international conservation to show how the specific deployment of military groups in Colombia reflects an interplay between notions of the protection of (species) life, longer colonial histories, and more recent classification of geographies in terms of riskiness and value.Mónica Amador-JiménezNaomi MillnerFrontiers Media S.A.articleforestmilitarizationCOVID19deforestationColombianecropoliticsSocial SciencesHENFrontiers in Human Dynamics, Vol 3 (2021)
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spellingShingle	forest militarization COVID19 deforestation Colombia necropolitics Social Sciences H Mónica Amador-Jiménez Naomi Millner Militarisation Under COVID-19: Understanding the Differential Impact of Lockdown on the Forests of Colombia
description	Drawing on qualitative analysis and anthropological histories, we argue that deforestation rates in the Inter-Andean Valleys and in the Amazon Belt of Colombia reflect the specific role of the military in different articulations of the political forest along with new connections between conservation and the war on drugs. This paper examines the increase in deforestation in Colombia in 2020 that partially coincided with the “lockdown” imposed to curb the spread of COVID-19. Early media analysis linked this with the redeployment of military forces away from forest protection to impose lockdown restrictions. However, closer investigation reveals significant regional variation in both the reorganisation of military groups, and in the rate at which deforestation has materialised; military presence has increased in some regions, while in others deforestation has increased. To explain this, we unpack the “biopolitical” dimensions of international conservation to show how the specific deployment of military groups in Colombia reflects an interplay between notions of the protection of (species) life, longer colonial histories, and more recent classification of geographies in terms of riskiness and value.
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author	Mónica Amador-Jiménez Naomi Millner
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title	Militarisation Under COVID-19: Understanding the Differential Impact of Lockdown on the Forests of Colombia
title_short	Militarisation Under COVID-19: Understanding the Differential Impact of Lockdown on the Forests of Colombia
title_full	Militarisation Under COVID-19: Understanding the Differential Impact of Lockdown on the Forests of Colombia
title_fullStr	Militarisation Under COVID-19: Understanding the Differential Impact of Lockdown on the Forests of Colombia
title_full_unstemmed	Militarisation Under COVID-19: Understanding the Differential Impact of Lockdown on the Forests of Colombia
title_sort	militarisation under covid-19: understanding the differential impact of lockdown on the forests of colombia
publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
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url	https://doaj.org/article/7397cc6c6e394482bcc81a7c7d0d8a58
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Militarisation Under COVID-19: Understanding the Differential Impact of Lockdown on the Forests of Colombia

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