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Elusive justice : women, land rights, and Colombia's transition to peace / Donny Meertens.
Lippincott Library HD1333.C7 M44 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meertens, Donny, author.
- Series:
- Critical human rights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land reform--Colombia.
- Land reform.
- Women peasants.
- Social conditions.
- Women landowners.
- Land reform beneficiaries.
- Colombia.
- Land reform--Law and legislation--Colombia.
- Land reform--Law and legislation.
- Land reform beneficiaries--Colombia.
- Women landowners--Colombia.
- Women peasants--Colombia--Social conditions.
- Land tenure--Colombia.
- Land tenure.
- Women peasants--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 206 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- Fifty years of violence perpetrated by guerrillas, paramilitaries, and official armed forces in Colombia displaced more than six million people. In 2011, as part of a larger transitional justice process, the Colombian government approved a law that would restore land rights for those who lost their homes during the conflicts. However, this restitution process lacked appropriate provisions for rural women beyond granting them a formal property title. Drawing on decades of research, Elusive Justice demonstrates how these women continue to face numerous adverse circumstances, including geographical isolation, encroaching capitalist enterprises, and a dearth of social and institutional support. Donny Meertens contends that women's advocacy organizations must have a prominent role in overseeing these transitional policies in order to create a more just society. By bringing together the underresearched topic of property repayment and the pursuit of gender justice in peacebuilding, these findings have broad significance elsewhere in the world. -- back cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Land, Gender, and Justice on the Eve of Peace
- Transition: Back to normal life?
- Dispossession: A twofold gendered history
- Friction: Land restitution at work
- Transformation: The elusive future
- Conclusion: Linking land, justice and gender to the peace accord
- Epilogue: Women protagonists of the peace accord on gender and land.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780299325602
- 0299325601
- OCLC:
- 1091271533
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