When Forests Run Amok

War and Its Afterlives in Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Territories

By: Daniel Ruiz-Serna

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Hardcover | 24 February 2023

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282 Pages

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16.0 x 23.9 x 2.4

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In When Forests Run Amok Daniel Ruiz-Serna follows the afterlives of war, showing how they affect the variety of human and nonhuman beings that compose the region of Bajo Atrato: the traditional land of Indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples. Attending to Colombia's armed conflict as an experience that resounds in the lives and deaths of people, animals, trees, rivers, and spirits, Ruiz-Serna traces a lasting damage that brought Indigenous peoples to compel the Colombian government to legally recognize their territories as victims of war. Although this recognition extends transitional justice into new terrains, Ruiz-Serna considers the collective and individual wounds that continue unsettling spirits, preventing shamans from containing evil, attracting jaguars to the taste of human flesh, troubling the flow of rivers, and impeding the ability of people to properly deal with the dead. Ruiz-Serna raises potent questions about the meanings of justice, the forms it can take, and the limits of human-rights frameworks to repair the cosmic order that war unravels when it unsettles more-than-human worlds-causing forests to run amok.

Industry Reviews

"When Forests Run Amok is an ambitious work that challenges readers' understandings of culture, territories, and justice. . . . Recommended. Graduate students and faculty." -- A. E. Leykam * Choice *
"When Forests Run Amok is a provocative work that will no doubt spark animated discussion. Whether or not we, as readers, entirely follow Ruiz-Serna's epistemological leap, his approach does provide for an exceptionally intimate, creative, and illuminating study of a place and conflict that have rightly been receiving a lot of scholarly attention." -- Nancy P. Appelbaum * Ethnic and Racial Studies *
"In the book When Forests Run Amok, author Daniel Ruiz-Serna skillfully weaves narratives that depict the scars inflicted by violent exchange between guerrilla and paramilitary forces within the Indigenous and Afro-Colombian territories of Bajo Atrato." -- Ajayant Katoch * Cultural Politics *

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