Building amidst displacement: collective r-existence practices from racialised youth in Buenaventura, Colombia

In Latin America the participation of young people in public decision-making scenarios formally continues to be questioned and relegated, however, this comes into discussion when the context in which it is framed is crossed by the logics of war. This study focuses on understanding how intra-urban displacement experiences of young people in Buenaventura, Colombia forges their identity-making processes and how the subsequent emplacement allows them to stablish new feelings of attachment. This, to further consider re-territorialization processes as a collective way of recovering the territory and their R-existence practices as their innovative way of countering violence and challenging the colonial power structures.