{"product_id":"dissident-peace-autonomous-struggles-and-the-state-in-colombia-hardback-9781503642409","title":"Dissident Peace; Autonomous Struggles and the State in Colombia (Hardback) 9781503642409","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDissident Peace\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAutonomous Struggles and the State in Colombia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnthony Dest (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503642409\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 July 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages, 2 tables, 1 figure, 21 halftones, 1 map\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDissident Peace\u003c\/i\u003e is a thorough examination of the profound contradictions of seeking peace within State-driven frameworks. Based on an exemplary engagement with black and indigenous movements in Colombia over several years, the author demonstrates why their struggles for self-determination offer a cogent and workable alternative to dominant peace paradigms. With this outstanding book, Dest emerges as one of the foremost theorizers of the meaning and practice of autonomy in Latin America.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Arturo Escobar, author of \u003ci\u003ePluriversal Politics\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) and co-author of \u003ci\u003eRelationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human\u003c\/i\u003e (2024) \"\u003ci\u003eDissident Peace\u003c\/i\u003e is an incredibly rich and beautifully-written account of the limits and possibilities of peace in Colombia. Centering Afro-Colombian and Indigenous communities' struggles over territory and life, this work is a powerful reminder that autonomy, however partial, cannot be given from above, but must be manifested from below.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Tianna Paschel, University of California, Berkeley \"A much-needed critique of the concept of peace, told through the story of the 2016 Colombian peace process between the revolutionary guerrillas and the state. Focusing on the struggles for autonomy of marginalized black and indigenous communities, this is an account which nevertheless shores up spaces of hope for a better future.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Alpa Shah, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India and Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eDissident Peace\u003c\/i\u003e opens up critical space from which to imagine more radical forms of peace.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the coca fields of southwestern Colombia to the negotiating table in Cuba, \u003ci\u003eDissident Peace\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface: Toward an Ethnography of Struggle\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction: Unsettling Peace in Colombia\u003cbr\u003e  1. Alfonso Cano's Grave: Vanguardism and the FARC-EP in Northern Cauca\u003cbr\u003e  2. The Coca Enclosure: Drug Trafficking and the Settler Colonization of Struggle\u003cbr\u003e  3. Making Peasants Count: Creole Whiteness and the Politics of Recognition\u003cbr\u003e  4. ¡Tod@s Somos Primera Línea? Preliminary Notes on the 2021 Uprising in Cali\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: The Doing of Dissidence\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  List of Acronyms\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610724069656,"sku":"9781503642409","price":66.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/dissident-peace-autonomous-struggles-and-the-state-in-colombia-hardback-9781503642409","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}