Sentido de lugar, tramas y plantaciones en la producción del <i>espacio negro</i> en Colombia

Black geographies focus on the relationship between race, imaginaries, representations, thought, and black spatial practices. Taken together, these themes reveal how black epistemologies of spatiality are tied to poetics—imaginaries and representations—and to radical practices of black life. By drawing attention to the commitments of black geographies to the interaction between the material and poetic processes of negritude, I foreground the plots and understandings of space in Black terrains. In this article, I analyze the construction of a black sense of place by examining rozas, vegas, and islas as socio-spatial forms and plots, and the ways they intersect race, space, and nature, shaping a black sense of place. I also argue that the cattle ranch is a geographic expression of the plantation that constructs and erases the black sense of place. The methodology guiding this paper is ethnographic, employing techniques such as interviews, field notes, counter-cartography, and spatial representation. Drawing on the conceptualization of the black sense of place and building theoretical bridges with fields such as black ecocriticism and other social science disciplines, I use empirical examples of black spatiality from the Patía Valley in southwestern Colombia to foster new geographic, socio-spatial, and anthropological conversations about the ways in which a black sense of place is constructed. This article takes spatial categories seriously, engages in dialogue with narratives, texts, and authors, and deepens the understanding of Black space production.