Feel the Grass Grow : Ecologies of Slow Peace in Colombia / Angela Jill Lederach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lederach, Angela Jill, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace-building--Colombia.

Peace-building.

Peasants--Political activity--Colombia.

Peasants.

Political violence--Colombia.

Political violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Lederach, Angie Feel the Grass Grow

ISBN:

9781503635692

OCLC:

1376196086