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Author Courtheyn, Christopher, author

Title Community of peace : performing geographies of ecological dignity in Colombia / Christopher Courtheyn
Published Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 284 pages) : illustrations
Series Pitt Latin American series
Pitt Latin American series.
Summary "This is an ethnography of the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartadó, Colombia. Achieving peace is often thought about in terms of military operations or state negotiations, as in the recent peace process between the Colombian government and FARC guerrillas. Yet, it also happens at the grassroots level where communities envision and create peace. The San Jose de Apartadó Peace Community of small-scale farmers has not waited for a top-down peace treaty to be imposed. Instead, they have actively resisted forced displacement and co-optation by guerrillas, army soldiers, and paramilitaries for two decades in Colombia's war-torn Urabá region. San Jose's peace through autonomy reflects an alternative to traditional modes of politics practiced through electoral representation and armed struggle. Courtheyn illustrates how the Peace Community's food sovereignty practices and performance of memory produce an emancipatory politics, consistent with autonomist social movements across Latin America, that unveils and counters racism to produce an anti-colonial, radical peace of ecological dignity through trans-community solidarity"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 25, 2022)
Subject Peace-building -- Colombia -- San José de Apartadó
Farmers -- Political activity -- Colombia -- San José de Apartadó
Food sovereignty -- Colombia -- San José de Apartadó
Group identity -- Colombia -- San José de Apartadó
Land tenure -- Colombia -- San José de Apartadó
HISTORY -- General.
Social conditions
Peace-building
Land tenure
Group identity
Food sovereignty
Farmers -- Political activity
SUBJECT San José de Apartadó (Colombia) -- Social conditions
Subject Colombia -- San José de Apartadó
Form Electronic book
ISBN 082298878X
9780822988786