Dissident Peace

Autonomous Struggles and the State in Colombia

Anthony Dest (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2025 | New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-4240-9 (ISBN)

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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 fifty 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.

Anthony Dest is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College, City University of New York.

Preface: Toward an Ethnography of Struggle
Introduction: Unsettling Peace in Colombia
1. Alfonso Cano's Grave: Vanguardism and the FARC-EP in Northern Cauca
2. The Coca Enclosure: Drug Trafficking and the Settler Colonization of Struggle
3. Making Peasants Count: Creole Whiteness and the Politics of Recognition
4. ¡Tod@s Somos Primera Línea? Preliminary Notes on the 2021 Uprising in Cali
Conclusion: The Doing of Dissidence
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2025
Zusatzinfo	2 tables, 1 figure, 21 halftones, 1 map
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-5036-4240-2 / 1503642402
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-4240-9 / 9781503642409
Zustand	Neuware