Environmental discourses: a historical look at the configuration of the PNN Katios territory in Colombia and its buffer zone

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper attempts to identify and characterize, from a historical perspective, “the environmental discourses” that have been created and have circulated on what we now know as National Parks in Colombia, specifically on the PNN Katios National Park. The research argues that such discourses have been constructed, propagated, institutionalized and legitimized as a means and dynamic factor in a broader discourse we have called “development discourse.RESUMEN: Este artículo intenta identificar y caracterizar desde una perspectiva histórica “los discursos ambientales” que se han construido y han circulado alrededor de lo que actualmente conocemos como Parque Nacional Natural en Colombia, particularmente sobre el PNN Katíos. Se defiende la idea de que dichos discursos se han construido, propagado, institucionalizado y legitimado como medio y factor dinamizador de un discurso más amplio que hemos denominado “discurso del desarrollo”