When forests run amok : war and its afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian territories

Ruiz-Serna, Daniel 1977- (author.).

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.""--

Record details

ISBN: 9781478016878 (hardcover)
Physical Description: print
xi, 268 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	The flow of selves -- Still waters run deep -- Imperishable evils -- Awakening forests -- The shared world of the living and the dead -- A jaguar and a half -- A life of legal concern.