Latin America is framed within a neoliberal rationality that favors the installation of legal structures of dispossession (LSD) (Hernández, 2019). However, local communities resist and counterattack in diverse ways, including legal and political. A space for observing these dynamics is the socio-environmental conflict derived from the La Colosa gold mining project in Colombia, since, through the use of mechanisms such as popular consultation, new institutional agreements have been reached challenging the traditional distribution of power over the territory. The central argument is that the case of resistance to megaprojects through legal mechanisms helps to observe the processes of institutionalized resistance that transform legal structures to give way to a different relationship between nature-society. Methodologically, the argument is based on participant and participatory observatio...

Latin America is framed within a neoliberal rationality that favors the installation of legal structures of dispossession (LSD) (Hernández, 2019). However, local communities resist and counterattack in diverse ways, including legal and political. A space for observing these dynamics is the socio-environmental conflict derived from the La Colosa gold mining project in Colombia, since, through the use of mechanisms such as popular consultation, new institutional agreements have been reached challenging the traditional distribution of power over the territory. The central argument is that the case of resistance to megaprojects through legal mechanisms helps to observe the processes of institutionalized resistance that transform legal structures to give way to a different relationship between nature-society. Methodologically, the argument is based on participant and participatory observatio...

Latin America is framed within a neoliberal rationality that favors the installation of legal structures of dispossession (LSD) (Hernández, 2019). However, local communities resist and counterattack in diverse ways, including legal and political. A space for observing these dynamics is the socio-environmental conflict derived from the La Colosa gold mining project in Colombia, since, through the use of mechanisms such as popular consultation, new institutional agreements have been reached challenging the traditional distribution of power over the territory. The central argument is that the case of resistance to megaprojects through legal mechanisms helps to observe the processes of institutionalized resistance that transform legal structures to give way to a different relationship between nature-society. Methodologically, the argument is based on participant and participatory observatio...