Right to territory as a basis for cognitive justice

Abstract

The right to territory is not purely a legal matter. It is above all, a cultural argument of socio-spatial behaviour that gives concept, regulation and establishment to social relations. This article positions law and justice as explanatory categories, insofar as they allow us to establish – in our case ethnographically – the factors that guide their production and vindication through facts that account for a society, its geography and its history (territorial facts). The justice to which we refer is cognitive, which involves a multidimensional body of situated knowledge (or places that produce knowledge) for knowing how to be. This article will address this position on the basis of two investigations carried out in the Central Andes of Colombia between 2011 and 2017, under the themes: “post-conflict scenarios in Co­lombia” and, “anthropo-environmental reconfiguration". The technologies and cultural materials presented fall within the scope of territorial scales (scale as cultural value) from an anal­ysis of the anthropology of the territory.