Postconflict utopias : everyday survival in Chocó, Colombia / Tania Lizarazo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lizarazo, Tania, 1983- author.

Series:

Dissident feminisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, Black--Colombia--Chocó--Social conditions.

Women, Black.

Women, Black--Political activity--Colombia--Chocó.

Feminism--Colombia--Chocó.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

xii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Everyday survival in Chocó, Colombia

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Black women in the department of Chocó, Colombia, respond to the violence endemic to their region with activism and storytelling. Tania Lizarazo focuses on members of COCOMACIA, a Black farmers' association that defends communities and territories along the nation's Pacific lowlands' rivers. Drawing on the life stories of members, Lizarazo explains how Chocó's Black Colombian women answered firsthand experiences of violence with a dedication to survival and activism. Survival amid armed conflict proves to be an embodied practice. Day by day, the women imagine what memory, peace, and justice could look like when the bloodshed ends. Though peace may seem impossible, wishing and working for a better world motivates these women to steadily dismantle the scaffolding of violence built around their lives. A merger of eyewitness accounts and theory, Postconflict Utopias explores the links between lived knowledge and survival while revealing the power unleashed when women ask the simple question, "Why not?""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction Utopias as Why Nots

Utopian Rehearsals: Ethical Considerations on Moving Beyond Victimhood

Utopian Stories: Survival Technologies in Mujeres Pacíficas

Utopian Archives: Turning Trauma into Memory

Utopian Memories: Documenting Collective Territories

Utopian Networks: Showing Up as a Durational Performance

Everyday Utopias: Ethics and Care as Peacemaking

Conclusion Performing Why Nots.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Lizarazo, Tania, 1983- Postconflict utopias

ISBN:

9780252046278

0252046277

9780252088346

0252088344

OCLC:

1434026186