“Un ejército revolucionario para la toma del poder”: los conocimientos del terreno en el Nuevo Modo de Operar de las FARC-EP (1982-2004) Thesis

short description

  • Undergraduate thesis

Thesis author

  • Ruiz Gallego, Andrés Felipe

external tutor

  • Henzel-Riveros, Franz D.
  • Uribe, Simón

abstract

  • In its more than 50 years of existence as an armed movement, the FARC guerrilla learned, taught and produced knowledge. These were institutionalized in training schools and courses of specialties, conceptualized in pedagogical materials that took the form of manuals, and applied in military plans and balances. An insight of the history of the guerrilla with a sensitivity to the production, teaching and learning of knowledge, can illuminate aspects that have been little known about this organization, or even complement narratives that have neglected this perspective. The text focuses on a particular moment in the history of the FARC, in which a New Form of Operating was established, an operational tactic that demanded transformations in the movement's relationship with knowledge, especially in relation to the knowledge of the terrain. I argue that in addition to contributing to the domination of the terrain to obtain tactical advantages that would contribute to the fulfillment of its strategic objectives, the production of these types of knowledge co-produced very particular ways of inhabiting and imagining space. Hence, the research is committed to giving another texture to the stories that have been written about the FARC, still very focused on political, ideological and military aspects, although it is also emerging as a contribution in other fields such as the Social Studies of Science and Technology.

publication date

  • November 19, 2021 1:42 PM

keywords

  • Co-production
  • FARC
  • Knowledge of the terrain
  • New form of operating
  • Revolutionary army
  • Specialties

Document Id

  • b131106e-aef4-45b9-a566-3f5137c431f7