Agua corriente: hacia una praxis ambiental alternative en torno al agua en algunos relatos de no ficción de excombatientes de las farc-ep

Since the signing of the Peace Accords in Colombia in 2016, different cultural productions that reflect on the armed conflict from an ecological perspective have emerged. One of these productions is Agua corriente (2022), an anthology of non-fiction stories written by signatories of said Accords and coordinated by the Master’s Program in Creative Writing at the Caro y Cuervo Institute in Bogotá. From a critical environmental perspective, this article analyzes three of these stories —“Todo es agua” by Manuel Bolívar, “Aguas en guerra, aguas en paz” by Gabriel Ángel and “Río moribundo” by Elkin Carabalí—, in order to shed light on the different relationships that the signatories of the Agreements had with water, to conclude that, in all of them, the memory processes, linked to water, point to the emergence of an alternative environmental praxis for the post-conflict based on in land conservation, environmental ethics and water democracy.