Postconflict utopias : everyday survival in Chocó, Colombia / Tania Lizarazo.

Postconflict utopias : everyday survival in Chocó, Colombia / Tania Lizarazo.

9780252047633 electronic book
025204763X electronic book
9780252046278 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780252088346 paperback ; alkaline paper

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2024]

English

1 online resource.

HQ1554.C46 L59 2024

305.48/896086151

"Black women in the department of Chocó, Colombia, respond to the violence endemic to their region with activism and storytelling. Tania Lizarazo focuses on members of COCOMACIA, a Black farmers' association that defends communities and territories along the nation's Pacific lowlands' rivers. Drawing on the life stories of members, Lizarazo explains how Chocó's Black Colombian women answered firsthand experiences of violence with a dedication to survival and activism. Survival amid armed conflict proves to be an embodied practice. Day by day, the women imagine what memory, peace, and justice could look like when the bloodshed ends. Though peace may seem impossible, wishing and working for a better world motivates these women to steadily dismantle the scaffolding of violence built around their lives. A merger of eyewitness accounts and theory, Postconflict Utopias explores the links between lived knowledge and survival while revealing the power unleashed when women ask the simple question, "Why not?""-- Provided by publisher.

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