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Chocolate, politics and peace-building : an ethnography of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia / Gwen Burnyeat.

9783319514789 (electronic book)
3319514784 (electronic book)
9783319514772
3319514776

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

English

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10.1007/978-3-319-51478-9 doi

HN310.S26

986.1/26

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 internal armed conflict, in the north-west region of Urabá. It reveals two core narratives in the Community 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 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.

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