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DELGADO BARON, Mariana. Colombian Armed Conflict's Victims and the Victims and Land Restitution Law: Appropriation and Significance of a Legal Category. Perf. latinoam. [online]. 2015, vol.23, n.46, pp.121-145. ISSN 0188-7653.

Law 1448 of 2011, or Victims and Land Restitution's Law, was implemented on 2012 as a juridical mechanism adopted in the middle of the Colombian armed conflict for the land's restitution to those who were deprived of it for some of the armed actors. This law establishes who has access to the right of restitution and reparation (symbolic or economical), and in this way once again it defines a victim's universe. The implementation of this law allow to broaden the debate about the victim's notion not only as a juridical category, clearly delimited and defined in the text of the law, but also as a notion that characterizes and delimited particular kinds of subjects. In this article, the author to contribute to the discussion about the meaning of the victim's notion that the law has produced and about the dynamics of political subjectivation related with this social, political and juridical process.

Palabras llave : Victims and Land Restitution's Law; victim's definition; Colombian armed conflict.

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