Book colloquium: Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building: An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia
A light sandwich lunch will be served from 12:45pm
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.
Date:
14 May 2018, 13:00
Venue:
St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details:
Law Faculty - Seminar Room L
Speakers:
Gwen Burnyeat (University College London),
Dr Laura Rival (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Centre for Criminology
Organiser:
Oxford Transitional Justice Research (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
ivo.gruev@law.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Ivo Gruev (University of Oxford )
Part of:
Oxford Transitional Justice Research (OTJR) Seminar Series
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Booking url:
https://www.facebook.com/events/2075554169358880/
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Celine Leong