Feel the Grass Grow
Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia
Seiten
2023
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3464-0 (ISBN)
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3464-0 (ISBN)
On November 24, 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia signed a revised peace accord that marked a political end to over a half-century of war. Feel the Grass Grow traces the far less visible aspects of moving from war to peace: the decades of campesino struggle to defend life, land, and territory prior to the national accord, as well as campesino social leaders' engagement with the challenges of the state's post-accord reconstruction efforts. In the words of the campesino organizers, "peace is not signed, peace is built."
Drawing on nearly a decade of extensive ethnographic and participatory research, Angela Jill Lederach advances a theory of "slow peace." Slowing down does not negate the urgency that animates the defense of territory in the context of the interlocking processes of political and environmental violence that persist in post-accord Colombia. Instead, Lederach shows how the campesino call to "slowness" recenters grassroots practices of peace, grounded in multigenerational struggles for territorial liberation. In examining the various layers of meaning embedded within campesino theories of "the times (los tiempos)," this book directs analytic attention to the holistic understanding of peacebuilding found among campesino social leaders. Their experiences of peacebuilding shape an understanding of time as embodied, affective, and emplaced. The call to slow peace gives primacy to the everyday, where relationships are deepened, ancestral memories reclaimed, and ecologies regenerated.
Drawing on nearly a decade of extensive ethnographic and participatory research, Angela Jill Lederach advances a theory of "slow peace." Slowing down does not negate the urgency that animates the defense of territory in the context of the interlocking processes of political and environmental violence that persist in post-accord Colombia. Instead, Lederach shows how the campesino call to "slowness" recenters grassroots practices of peace, grounded in multigenerational struggles for territorial liberation. In examining the various layers of meaning embedded within campesino theories of "the times (los tiempos)," this book directs analytic attention to the holistic understanding of peacebuilding found among campesino social leaders. Their experiences of peacebuilding shape an understanding of time as embodied, affective, and emplaced. The call to slow peace gives primacy to the everyday, where relationships are deepened, ancestral memories reclaimed, and ecologies regenerated.
Angela Jill Lederach is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Peace Studies at Chapman University. She is the co-author, with John Paul Lederach, of When Blood and Bones Cry Out: Journeys Through the Soundscape of Healing and Reconciliation (2010).
Introduction: To Defend Life: An Introduction
One: From and For the Territory: The Campesino Struggle for Peace
Two: The Earth Suffered, Too: The Death of the Avocado Forest and Multispecies
Three: The Times of Slow Peace
Four: Too Much Prisa: The Temporal Dynamics of Violence and Peace
Four: Too Much Prisa: The Temporal Dynamics of Violence and Peace
Six: Voice and Votes: Building Territorial Peace
Seven: Vigías of Hope: Slow Peace and the Ethics of Attention
Coda: Coda
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.05.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 5 halftones, 1 map |
| Verlagsort | Palo Alto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5036-3464-7 / 1503634647 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5036-3464-0 / 9781503634640 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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