Gwen Burnyeat

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Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building (eBook, PDF)

An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia

Beschreibung

Provides a fresh perspective on a grassroots community that has been both glorified and condemned by human rights activists and academia

Focuses on an area that has experienced extreme levels of violence - over 60 years of war, where a number of different peace-building initiatives have failed to produce desired results

Speaks through the voice of someone who is closely familiar with this community, the author having done extensive field research there, focusing on the socio-political reality on the ground and the creative coping mechanisms that different communities have developed

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
• ohne Kopierschutz
• Größe: 2.17MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

Gwen Burnyeat is a Wolfson PhD Scholar in Anthropology at University College London, UK. She has worked in Colombia for eight years, has a Masters from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia where she also lectured in Political Anthropology, and her prize-winning documentary 'Chocolate of Peace' was released in 2016 (see http://chocolatedepaz.com/english for a trailer).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 263
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319514789
• Artikelnr.: 52938019

Rezensionen

"The book as a whole remains a fascinating and well-researched exploration of resistance against terrible odds. Thoughtful and well documented, it is an indispensable addition to the body of ethnographic work on political conflict in what continues to be a violent and deeply polarised polity." (Nick Morgan, Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 52 (2), 2020)

"While the book centres on the politics of chocolate in the midst of Colombia's war, it is also about much more. Chocolate, politics and peace-building is an important rumination on one of the most high-profile community-based attempts to create peace in Colombia amidst structural forces that pull towards violence. Burnyeat's ethnography is as urgent as ever now that much of the country is living in a tattered peace, hounded by similar structural forces." (Alexander L. Fattal, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 26 (2), 2020)

"Burnyeat's sophisticated, grounded approach and valuable research about peace communities and sustainability will contribute to future discussions about the state, the importance of Community members' identity narratives, and how to achieve sustainable, positive peace." (Suzanne Wilson, Maguaré, Vol. 33 (2), 2019)