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Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building

An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia
Studies of the Americas

von: Gwen Burnyeat
CHF 65.00
Verlag:	Palgrave Macmillan
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	08.01.2018
ISBN/EAN:	9783319514789
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

<p>This book tells the story of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, an emblematic grassroots social movement of peasant farmers, who unusually declared themselves ‘neutral’ to Colombia’s internal armed conflict, in the north-west region of Urabá. It reveals two core narratives in the Community’s collective identity, which Burnyeat calls the ‘radical’ and the ‘organic’ narratives. These refer to the historically-constituted interpretative frameworks according to which they perceive respectively the Colombian state, and their relationship with their natural and social environments. Together, these two narratives form an ‘Alternative Community’ collective identity, comprising a distinctive conception of grassroots peace-building. This study, centered on the Community’s socio-economic cacao-farming project, offers an innovative way of approaching victims’ organizations and social movements through critical, post-modern politics and anthropology. It will become essential reading toLatin American ethnographers and historians, and all interested in conflict resolution and transitional justice.</p><p><br></p><p>Read the author's blog drawing on the book here: </p><p>http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2018/06/07/colombias-unsung-heroes/</p>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The Chocolate-Politics Continuum.- 2. The Roots: Of Cooperatives and Conflict.- 3. The Founding of the Peace Community.- 4. The Cultural Change of 'Organisation'.- 5. The Genealogy of the Rupture 1997-2005.- 6. Differentiating between Santos and Uribe.- 7. Practices of Production.- 8. The Elements of the Organic Narrative.- 9. Conclusion: An 'Alternative Community' as Positive Peace-Building?.

Autorenportrait

<div><b>Gwen Burnyeat </b>is a Wolfson PhD Scholar in Anthropology at University College London, UK. She has worked in Colombia for eight years, has a Masters from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia where she also lectured in Political Anthropology, and her prize-winning documentary ‘Chocolate of Peace’ was released in 2016 (see http://chocolatedepaz.com/english for a trailer).</div><div><br></div>

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This book tells the story of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, an emblematic grassroots social movement of peasant farmers, who unusually declared themselves ‘neutral’ to Colombia’s internal armed conflict, in the north-west region of Urabá. It reveals two core narratives in the Community’s collective identity, which Burnyeat calls the ‘radical’ and the ‘organic’ narratives. These refer to the historically-constituted interpretative frameworks according to which they perceive respectively the Colombian state, and their relationship with their natural and social environments. Together, these two narratives form an ‘Alternative Community’ collective identity, comprising a distinctive conception of grassroots peace-building. This study, centered on the Community’s socio-economic cacao-farming project, offers an innovative way of approaching victims’ organizations and social movements through critical, post-modern politics and anthropology. It will become essential reading to Latin American ethnographers and historians, and all interested in conflict resolution and transitional justice.<div><br></div><div><p><b>Gwen Burnyeat</b> is a Wolfson PhD Scholar in Anthropology at University College London, UK. She has worked in Colombia for eight years, has a Masters from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia where she also lectured in Political Anthropology, and her prize-winning documentary ‘Chocolate of Peace’ was released in 2016 (www.chocolateofpeace.com).</p></div>

Sonderbeitrag

Provides a fresh perspective on a grassroots community that has been both glorified and condemned by human rights activists and academia Focuses on an area that has experienced extreme levels of violence - over 60 years of war, where a number of different peace-building initiatives have failed to produce desired results Speaks through the voice of someone who is closely familiar with this community, the author having done extensive field research there, focusing on the socio-political reality on the ground and the creative coping mechanisms that different communities have developed

Verkaufsargumente

Provides a fresh perspective on a grassroots community that has been both glorified and condemned by human rights activists and academia<br><br><div>Focuses on an area that has experienced extreme levels of violence - over 60 years of war, where a number of different peace-building initiatives have failed to produce desired results<br><br></div><div>Speaks through the voice of someone who is closely familiar with this community, the author having done extensive field research there, focusing on the socio-political reality on the ground and the creative coping mechanisms that different communities have developed <br></div>

Unpublished endorsement

“Wonderfully insightful and spiritually uplifting, this beautifully written book tells the amazing story of a Colombian rural community that, against all odds, has been able to carve out an autonomous space of peace in the midst of paramilitary, state, and guerrilla violations. Conceptually sophisticated and based on long-term ethnographic research, it evokes a better future for us all in these dark times.” (Michael Taussig, Class of 1933 Professor, Columbia University, USA)<p>“This is ethnography at its best. A non-extractive, participatory accompaniment of an extraordinary community, revealing the everyday costs and creativity behind the many struggles for peace in Colombia and their relationship to the formal peace process in Havana.” (Jenny Pearce, Latin America and Caribbean Centre, London School of Economics, UK)</p>