The policy of collective land titling to black communities on the Colombian Pacific: a view from local actors

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the collective titling policy through which came the recognition of land rights of black communities in Colombia, especially those settled on empty lands, of the rural and riparian zones of the Pacific river basins. Beyond the legal basis of this policy or the quantitative results of its application, what we want to discuss here are the local configurations that have adopted two of the main devices of the same: Law 70 of 1993 and the Local Community Councils that, to be subject to mul

- tiple and sometimes unexpected readings and performances by local actors, are far in real applications, formal design of it