Sobre la figura del campesino y la gestión del territorio: Una aproximación desde Nariño (Colombia)

This paper aims to show the trajectory of “campesino” notion in Colombian institutional context. “Campesino” has been used as a territorial management strategy organize set technologies, populations, crops, and soil use. Peasant organizations Colombia today seek position this category effective citizenship, social ordering their territories. To do this, we carried out descriptive study configuration figure peasant from level facing context Nariño. Methodologically, different qualitative research tools dig an ethnographic perspective agrarian, environmental, organization history region. We raise some reflections on current uses disputes through frameworks that seek, or omit, recognition agrarian citizenship category. Finally, provide strategies regulate rural spaces based subject-centered categories policies. The importance analysis is visibility community build, local experience, notions peasantry focused beyond functional productive character posed by State.