The Temporality of Yearning in the Configuration of the Peripheral Urban Territoriality of Llano Verde Neighborhood (Cali, Colombia)

Abstract

The article analyzes the intertwining of peripheral urban territoriality and the temporality of yearning of people with displacement trajectories, who hope to build a territory
of peace in Llano Verde (Cali, Colombia). It emphasizes that the challenges of segregation, inequality, violence and unfinished infrastructure in the neighborhood, mobilize people to act collectively for their illusion, through social organization and community ties. Given that the State has not guaranteed peace, residents interpret becoming from yearning, using past territorial experiences, agency and the imagination of a better future, to transform the space. This article contributes to studies of territoriality, showing its dynamic character, and of temporalities, indicating its discontinuity-multiplicity-mutability in a peripheral context. It is argued that the yearning territory of peace acts in the present, oscillating between the past and the future,
for its achievement.