Chocolate, politics and peace-building : an ethnography of the peace community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia

Author(s)

• Burnyeat, Gwen

Bibliographic Information

Chocolate, politics and peace-building : an ethnography of the peace community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia

Gwen Burnyeat

（Studies of the Americas）

Palgrave Macmillan, c2018

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-251) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book tells the story of the Peace Community of San Jose de Apartado, 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 Uraba. 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. Read the author's blog drawing on the book here: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2018/06/07/colombias-unsung-heroes/

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Chocolate-Politics Continuum Part I: Origins 2. The Roots: Of Cooperatives and Conflict 3. The Founding of the Peace Community 4. The Cultural Change of 'Organisation' Part II: The Radical Narrative 5. The Genealogy of the Rupture 1997-2005 6. Differentiating between Santos and Uribe Part III: The Organic Narrative 7. Practices of Production 8. The Elements of the Organic Narrative 9. Conclusion: An 'Alternative Community' as Positive Peace-Building?

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Details

• NCID: BB2655770X
• ISBN:
  • 9783319514772
• Country Code: sz
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: [Cham]
• Pages/Volumes: xxviii, 263 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 303.660986126
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Peace-building -- Colombia -- San José de Apartadó
  • LCSH : Communities -- Colombia -- San José de Apartadó
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA79053208