Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building

Provides a fresh perspective on a grassroots community that has been both glorified and condemned by human rights activists and academia

Focuses on an area that has experienced extreme levels of violence - over 60 years of war, where a number of different peace-building initiatives have failed to produce desired results

Speaks through the voice of someone who is closely familiar with this community, the author having done extensive field research there, focusing on the socio-political reality on the ground and the creative coping mechanisms that different communities have developed

Autorentext
Gwen Burnyeat is a Wolfson PhD Scholar in Anthropology at University College London, UK. She has worked in Colombia for eight years, has a Masters from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia where she also lectured in Political Anthropology, and her prize-winning documentary 'Chocolate of Peace' was released in 2016 (see http://chocolatedepaz.com/english for a trailer).

Inhalt

1. Introduction: The Chocolate-Politics Continuum.- 2. The Roots: Of Cooperatives and Conflict.- 3. The Founding of the Peace Community.- 4. The Cultural Change of 'Organisation'.- 5. The Genealogy of the Rupture 1997-2005.- 6. Differentiating between Santos and Uribe.- 7. Practices of Production.- 8. The Elements of the Organic Narrative.- 9. Conclusion: An 'Alternative Community' as Positive Peace-Building?.