When forests run amok : war and its afterlives in indigenous and Afro-Colombian territories / Daniel Ruiz-Serna.
"When Forests Run Amok is a multispecies ethnography that highlights how warfare and ecological ruination on the Pacific Coast of Colombia (particularly in the Bajo Atrato region of the Chocó department) have affected Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities. Daniel Ruiz-Serna aims to shift un...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2023.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "When Forests Run Amok is a multispecies ethnography that highlights how warfare and ecological ruination on the Pacific Coast of Colombia (particularly in the Bajo Atrato region of the Chocó department) have affected Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities. Daniel Ruiz-Serna aims to shift understandings of violence, suffering, and justice out of the frameworks of human rights and of dualisms (i.e. humans and the environment, subjects and objects); and instead, he seeks to highlight the broader webs of human and other-than-human relations that make up what we can understand as "living territories.""-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1478024143 9781478024149 |