John Sabogal Venegas

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. My academic interests include violence, disappeared people, Indigenous organizations, ethnicity, social movements, local processes of transitional justice, and peacebuilding in Colombia and Latin America. I hold an MA in Social Science Mention Political Studies (2019) from the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in France, and a BA in Anthropology (2016) and Psychology (2014) from the National University of Colombia.

Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations

Student Cultural Anthropology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent Scholarly Works

Ecologies of Search: Disappearances, Temporalities and Frictions in the Colombian Post-Agreement

Journal article Revista Colombiana De Antropologia · January 1, 2025 Following the 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian state and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP), the humanitarian search for all persons disappeared due to the war in Colombia opens new and unprecedented transitional ... Full text Cite

Más que bastones contra fusiles : acción colectiva del movimiento indígena caucano en tiempos violentos

Journal article Tramas y Redes · December 2024 Una lucha entre bastones y fusiles se ha librado en las montañas del norte del Cauca entre los indígenas del pueblo Nasa y la guerrilla de las FARC-EP en torno a dos proyectos políticos antagónicos en los que se disputa el territorio y la autonomía ... Full text Cite

Transiciones inconclusas: los caminos de la interculturalidad en el Sistema Integral para la Paz en Colombia

Journal article Tabula Rasa · October 17, 2023 This article addresses the advances in Colombian transitional justice, sanctioned by the Final Peace Agreement in 2016. A central argument is that ethnic organizations have been central actors to the design and implementation of the Special Peace J ... Full text Open Access Cite

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