The Face of Peace

Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia

Gwen Burnyeat (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2022
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-82162-7 (ISBN)

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A multi-scale ethnography of government pedagogy in Colombia and its impact on peace.

Colombia’s 2016 peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas sought to end fifty years of war and won President Juan Manuel Santos the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet Colombian society rejected it in a polarizing referendum, amid an emotive disinformation campaign. Gwen Burnyeat joined the Office of the High Commissioner for Peace, the government institution responsible for peace negotiations, to observe and participate in an innovative “peace pedagogy” strategy to explain the agreement to Colombian society. Burnyeat’s multi-scale ethnography reveals the challenges government officials experienced communicating with skeptical audiences and translating the peace process for public opinion. She argues that the fatal flaw in the peace process lay in government-society relations, enmeshed in culturally liberal logics and shaped by the politics of international donors. The Face of Peace offers the Colombian case as a mirror to the global crisis of liberalism, shattering the fantasy of rationality that haunts liberal responses to “post-truth” politics.

Gwen Burnyeat is a junior research fellow in anthropology at Merton College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Chocolate, Politics, and Peace-Building.

Note on Translation
List of Abbreviations
Prologue
Introduction

Part I Anthrohistory of the Santos Government
1 Peace, Politics, and Public Opinion under Juan Manuel Santos, 2010–2018
2 The Rationality Drive: The Development of Government Peace Pedagogy, 2012–2018
3 The Anti-politics of Cultural Liberalism

Part II Ethnography of Peace Pedagogy in Action
4 Interface: The Enactment of Legitimacy by Explanation
5 State-Consciousness: Three Layers of Responsibility and Trust
6 Rendering Political: The Affective Labor of Liaising with the FARC et al.
7 The Entangled Face: International Implication in Government Responsibility
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	25.08.2022
Zusatzinfo	10 halftones, 1 tables
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	0-226-82162-5 / 0226821625
ISBN-13	978-0-226-82162-7 / 9780226821627
Zustand	Neuware