Abstract
AbstractIn Colombia's attempts to bring its decades‐long conflict to a close, the state engaged in a broad endeavor to transition to a new era: the “post‐conflict.” In this process, state initiatives to grant land restitution, as well as peace negotiations with FARC guerrillas, billed property as critical to paving the path to peace. This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork in the region of Urabá to explore how and why the relationship between property and peace becomes such a compelling formula for imagining the future, even as projects to reconfigure property for peace keep failing. I argue that legal fantasies, particularly about property and the social contract, become necessary in order to give shape to an aspirational future state in moments of purported transition.
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