Postconflict Utopias: Everyday Survival in Choc?, Colombia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252088346)

Black women in the department of Choc?, Colombia, respond to the violence endemic to their region with activism and storytelling. Tania Lizarazo focuses on members of COCOMACIA, a Black farmers' association that defends communities and territories along the nation's Pacific lowlands' rivers. Drawing on the life stories of members, Lizarazo explains how Choc?'s Black Colombian women answered firsthand experiences of violence with a dedication to survival and activism. Survival amid armed conflict proves to be an embodied practice. Day by day, the women imagine what memory, peace, and justice could look like when the bloodshed ends. Though peace may seem impossible, wishing and working for a better world motivates these women to steadily dismantle the scaffolding of violence built around their lives.

A merger of eyewitness accounts and theory, Postconflict Utopias explores the links between lived knowledge and survival while revealing the power unleashed when women ask the simple question, "Why not?"

Author: Tania Lizarazo
ISBN-10: 0252088344
ISBN-13: 9780252088346
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 10/22/2024
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs