Dissident peace : autonomous struggles and the state in Colombia / Anthony Dest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dest, Anthony, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace-building--Colombia.

Peace-building.

Political violence--Colombia.

Political violence.

Government, Resistance to--Colombia.

Government, Resistance to.

Colombia--Politics and government--1974-.

Colombia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"In 2016, the Peace Accords between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP) and the Colombian government promised to bring an end to over 50 years of armed conflict. Yet, despite widespread international acclaim and heavy investments in the peace process, war continued. In this book, Anthony Dest provides a rigorous reassessment of the terms of peacebuilding through an ethnography of ongoing struggles for autonomy, based on over fifteen years of research and activism in Colombia. By questioning the potential for peace under the aegis of the state, Dissident Peace opens up critical space from which to imagine more radical forms of peace. From the coca fields of southwestern Colombia to the negotiating table in Cuba, Dissident Peace brings the contradictions of peacebuilding and organizing to life. Throughout the book, Dest locates contemporary violence within longer histories of colonial capitalism and centers the lives and insights of Black and Indigenous communities in Colombia. He identifies "dissident peace" as a potent alternative to dominant, state-centric peace frameworks--one based on evolving principles of autonomy and self-determination by marginalized communities. With vital implications for social movements globally, this book provides a gripping account of what it means to struggle today"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : unsettling peace in Colombia

Alfonso Cano's grave : vanguardism and the FARC-EP in northern Cauca

The coca enclosure : drug trafficking and the settler colonization of struggle

Making peasants count : creole whiteness and the politics of recognition

¡Tod@s somos primera línea? : preliminary notes on the 2021 uprising in Cali

Conclusion : the doing of dissidence.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-5036-4300-X