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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Castillejo-Cuéllar, A. (2025). La palabra que transita: Prefacio a esta segunda edición [The word that travels: Preface to the second edition]. In Comisión de la Verdad, Cuando los pájaros no cantaban: Historias del conflicto armado en Colombia. Volumen VI del Informe Final (2nd ed., pp. 31–34). Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes/Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Retrieved from https://www.comisiondelaverdad.co/cuando-los-pajaros-no-cantaban (last accessed 28 January 2026).
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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.
| 全部期间 | 过去一年 | 过去30天 | |
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| 摘要浏览次数 | 39 | 39 | 39 |
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