Between Twilights

• Autores: Kernaghan, Richard, Guevara Aristizábal, J. F. (Trad.), ⠀
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/31531
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/31531
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Forts; Territory; Seizures; Mobility; Time; Fuertes; Territorio; Captura; Movilidad; Tiempo

In narrated encounters between transportistas and soldiers, this chapter —the seventh of my book, Crossing the Current (Stanford University Press, 2022*)— describes how armed groups sought to control rural mobility in the Upper Huallaga Valley, when the region’s cocaine economy became entwined with the counter-insurgency conflict. With an emphasis on land and fluvial transit corridors, I give special attention to the territorial implications of army forts in order to show how those frontier outposts of the Peruvian state spread tangible effects beyond their own physical structures. Occupying hilltops and other strategic sites, counter-insurgency bases formed an archipelago that facilitated «seizures» of movement and time through checkpoints, curfews, and the confiscation of vehicles. This chapter traces how those seizures reoriented perceptions of valley geography —in ways that brought daytime and night into heightened opposition. With vivid stories, transportistas later told of their run-ins with the military, I examine the images, routine anticipations, and genres of encounter the fort system introduced and, for many years, sustained.   * This text is an authorized Spanish translation of the seventh chapter of the book Crossing the Current Aftermaths of War along the Huallaga River by Richard Kernaghan, published in 2022 by Stanford University Press. The original text was translated by Juan Felipe Guevara Aristizábal, and reviewed by Carmen Ilizarbe.