Pensar la periferia desde el centro: IEPRI, territorialidad política y geografía desigual del conocimiento político en Colombia

Abstract

This article offers a critical qualitative review of the intellectual production of the Institute of Political Studies and International Relations (IEPRI) and Análisis Político in order to explain how territorial questions became visible within Colombian political knowledge. The core finding is that IEPRI did not simply neglect peripheral territories; it rendered them legible through frames of conflict, administration, and state crisis. The corpus shows four shifts: region as agrarian violence and clientelism; territory as conflict and subnational politics; land, post-conflict, and the local state; and the Amazon as ecological territoriality and situated knowledge. IEPRI’s main contribution was not a continuous theory of regional development, but a center-produced regime of territorial visibility.