Coordinates and trajectories of a judicialization process. An ethnographic reading of the experience of the Arhuaco indigenous people's search for justice in Colombia

The article is the result of an ethnographic research developed with the Arhuaco indigenous people of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia, between 2017 and 2020, from my participation as an expert witness before the Supreme Court of Justice (highest instance of criminal and penal matters in the country), in the process of seeking justice for the detention, torture and murder of three indigenous authorities in 1990. In the article I analyze the complex process of the Arhuaco people to confront this act of violence, by undertaking a socio-legal mobilization that invoked the presence of the Colombian state with the prosecution of what happened to the three authorities.

Keywords:
Arhuaco indigenous people; Judicialization; Access to justice; Justice of intersection; Contexts of violence