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The End of the Future Bartholomew Dean

The End of the Future By Bartholomew Dean

The End of the Future by Bartholomew Dean


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Broadens the theoretical framework for understanding memories' role in reconciliation following a violent conflict. This book explores the complicated and confusing linkages between memory and trauma for individuals caught up in civil war and post-conflict reconciliation in the Peruvian Amazon's Huallaga Valley.

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The End of the Future: Trauma, Memory and Reconciliation in Peruvian Amazonia by Bartholomew Dean

The End of the Future broadens the theoretical framework for understanding memories' role in reconciliation following a violent conflict. This book explores the complicated and confusing linkages between memory and trauma for individuals caught up in civil war and post-conflict reconciliation in the Peruvian Amazon's Huallaga Valley-an epicenter for leftist rebels and a booming shadow economy based on the extraction and circulation of cocaine. The End of the Future tells the story of the TUpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement's (Movimiento Revolucionario TUpac Amaru, MRTA) violent attempts to overthrow the state in the late 1980s and early 1990s from the perspective of the poorest residents of the lower Huallaga's Caynarachi Basin.

To give context to the causes and consequences of the MRTA's presence in the lower and central Huallaga, a poorly documented part of the Peruvian Amazon, the book relies on the written works and testimony of SIstero GarcIa Torres, an MRTA rebel commander, the government's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, MRTA propaganda, media accounts, and critical historical texts. Besides exposing Huallaga Valley human rights abuses, the book's contribution to political anthropology is consequential for its insistence that reconciliation is by no means equivalent to local, indigenous notions of justice or customary forms of dispute resolution. Without deliberately addressing the diverse socio-cultural contours defining overlapping epistemologies of justice, freedom, and communal wellbeing, enduring reconciliation will likely remain elusive.

About Bartholomew Dean

Bartholomew Dean is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Foreword by Manuel Burga
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction. Narrative Renditions of Ugly Times: Memory, Violence, and Trauma in Peruvian Amazonia
  • Chapter 1. The Ugly Times of War
  • Chapter 2. In Search of the Rebel
  • Chapter 3. War Taxes: Cupos
  • Chapter 4. TUpac Amaru Libertador
  • Chapter 5. Forest Encounters
  • Chapter 6. Discipline: Law & Disorder
  • Chapter 7. White Gold
  • Chapter 8. Attack on the Pearl of the Huallaga
  • Chapter 9. The End of the Future: El Porvenir
  • Chapter 10. Memory, Silence & the Narration of Violence
  • Conclusion: Partisan Anthropology, Empathy, and Reconciliation
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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CIN0826506259G
9780826506252
0826506259
The End of the Future: Trauma, Memory and Reconciliation in Peruvian Amazonia by Bartholomew Dean
Used - Good
Paperback
Vanderbilt University Press
20231115
288
N/A
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