This talk brings the Latin American concept of body-territory into conversation with Black geographies to ask how racialized and gendered bodies produce and remake space through everyday practices of care. Building on Black feminist scholarship and on her own research on Afro-Colombian territorial struggles, it argues that body-territory offers a productive lens on dispossession, disappearance, and survival across rural and urban space. A second part introduces a new project on Palenquera women’s patios (backyard gardens) in Barranquilla as Black urban ecologies. Rather than displacement from territory, mobility here means bodies carrying seeds, plants, and memories, reassembling relations across places through gendered labours of care.
