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Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building: An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado, Colombia
Gwen Burnyeat
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Hardback. Series: Studies of the Americas. Num Pages: 10 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: GTJ; JHMC; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book tells the story of the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado, 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 Uraba. 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 ... Read more
This book tells the story of the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado, 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 Uraba. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Series
Studies of the Americas
Condition
New
Number of Pages
263
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319514772
SKU
V9783319514772
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About Gwen Burnyeat
Gwen Burnyeat 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).
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