Chocolate, Politics and Peace-Building An Ethnography of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Colombia /

• Main Author: Burnyeat, Gwen (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Studies of the Americas
• Subjects: Latin America-Politics and government.; Ethnography.; Peace.; Ethnology.; Comparative politics.; Latin American Politics.; Conflict Studies.; Social Anthropology.; Peace Studies.; Comparative Politics.

This book tells the story of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, an emblematic grassroots social movement of peasant farmers, who unusually declared themselves 'neutral' to Colombia's internal armed conflict, in the north-west region of Urabá. It reveals two core narrative...

Table of Contents:

• 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?.