The Word of the Ancestors
On Grieving Trees and the Juncture between Transitional and Environmental Restorative Justice in Colombia
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The aim of this ethnographic text is to explore a restorative nexus between Transitional Justice, post-conflict reconstruction and the prospect of Environmental Restorative Justice. Set on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, I argue that local efforts to build ‘peace on a small scale’, where meaning-making and the everyday are deeply intertwined, require that state institutions and society at large consider other conceptions of harm, testimony and listening that lie beyond the human-centric confines of Transitional Justice and Environmental Restorative Justice paradigms. For Indigenous spiritual authorities from the Sierra Nevada, other conceptions of collective pain and healing of nature-territory are central to restoring the human and non-human bonds broken by war. Human beings are not the only locus of suffering. The text takes its ethnographic cue from a land process in which a group of traditional authorities from the Sierra Nevada accompanied a displaced peasant organisation to return to their wounded territory.
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The Word of the Ancestors
On Grieving Trees and the Juncture between Transitional and Environmental Restorative Justice in Colombia
In: The International Journal of Restorative JusticeSearch for other papers by Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar in
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Google Scholar
PubMed
Abstract
The aim of this ethnographic text is to explore a restorative nexus between Transitional Justice, post-conflict reconstruction and the prospect of Environmental Restorative Justice. Set on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, I argue that local efforts to build ‘peace on a small scale’, where meaning-making and the everyday are deeply intertwined, require that state institutions and society at large consider other conceptions of harm, testimony and listening that lie beyond the human-centric confines of Transitional Justice and Environmental Restorative Justice paradigms. For Indigenous spiritual authorities from the Sierra Nevada, other conceptions of collective pain and healing of nature-territory are central to restoring the human and non-human bonds broken by war. Human beings are not the only locus of suffering. The text takes its ethnographic cue from a land process in which a group of traditional authorities from the Sierra Nevada accompanied a displaced peasant organisation to return to their wounded territory.
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