Calidad de vida, desarrollo humano, participación y territorio en las comunidades negras de los ConsejosComunitarios de la Caucana y Gamboa, Colombia: un análisis desde el enfoque de capacidades

Abstract

The document was the result of an investigation that sought to understand the notions around the quality of life and human development from the capabilities approach of the Community Councils of La Caucana and Gamboa in Buenaventura. This suggested the choice of a qualitative approach methodology with an interpretative-hermeneutic scope, due to the need to address those meanings that the research participants elaborated about the notions of quality of life and human development. At the same time, an analytical-reflexive scope was considered, since a hierarchy of these notions was made. The research participants were social leaders, inhabitants of the Community Councils and characters who have some kind of recognition within the community, but who do not have any type of formalized leadership within it. To collect the information, two focus groups were held, one in the Gamboa Community Council and the other in La Caucana, in both cases a semi-structured interview was designed and applied to address the proposed notions.Among the most outstanding findings was the fact that the black communities in the two Community Councils considered that tranquility is their own capacity, linked to their life dynamics, which can be affected by situations outside the territories inhabited by them. At the same time, it was determined that the conditions of inequality affect the definition of the quality of life and development, a situation accentuated in the unsatisfied needs and the missing functions for development.