Who is Nasa resists

Abstract

The articles presents the result of the research “Resistance practices in social emergencyscenarios: Nasa community Toribio-Cauca”. This is a qualitative research withhermeneutic approach. It aims to identify resistance practices generated by the Nasacommunity in Toribio-Cauca in response to power relations that produce social emergencyscenarios. The research is held from social cartography workshops, focusing onpower relations, desire and communication with groups of adults and authority places,fear and likes with groups of children. In addition, semi-structured interviews were held.The Nasa community is configured from a social emergency scenario, produced bypower relations from four types of conflict in the territory: armed, social, economic andethnic. In response to these power relations, the Nasa community generates resistancepractices summarized in the Nasa project, through the permanence in the territory,the indigenous Guard, the independent health and educational system, the productiveprojects, the political and social organization, the dialogue with armed people,the contingence plans, among others. With this research, it is intended to visualizethe organizational process of resistance of Nasa community and to dialogue with theauthors quoted in the theorical frame.