Feel the Grass Grow : Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia

• Autore: Lederach Angie
• Pubblicazione: Redwood City, : Stanford University Press, , 2023; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 pages)
• Disciplina: 303.6609861
• Soggetto topico: Peace-building - Colombia; Peasants - Political activity - Colombia; Political violence - Colombia
• Soggetto non controllato: Colombia; Slow peace; campesino social movements; environmental justice; intersectionality; multispecies ethnography; participatory action research; peacebuilding; transitional justice; war
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- To Defend Life: An Introduction -- Part I. Memorias Vivas-Living Memories -- 1. From and For the Territory: The Campesino Struggle for Peace -- 2. The Earth Suffered, Too: The Death of the Avocado Forest and Multispecies Resurgence -- Part II. Prisa-Hurry -- 3. Photos and Signatures: Contested Performances of Peace -- 4. Too Much Prisa: The Temporal Dynamics of Violence and Peace -- Part III. Paz Sin Prisa-Slow Peace -- 5. The Times of Slow Peace -- 6 Voice and Votes: Building Territorial Peace -- 7. Vigías of Hope: Slow Peace and the Ethics of Attention -- Coda -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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 peace activists, "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: Feel the Grass Grow
• ISBN: 9781503635692; 9781503635685
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910860869703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II