Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building

An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-84661-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 263 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

Reihe: Studies of the Americas

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.

Read the author's blog drawing on the book here: 

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2018/06/07/colombias-unsung-heroes/

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burnyeat, Gwen

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

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?.

Über Autor(innen)

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).