The End of the Future - Trauma, Memory and Reconciliation in Peruvian Amazonia

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 TÚpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement's (Movimiento Revolucionario TÚpac 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 SÍstero GarcÍa 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.

General

Imprint:	Vanderbilt University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2023
Authors:	Bartholomew Dean • Manuel Burga
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-8265-0625-2
Categories:	Books
LSN:	0-8265-0625-9
Barcode:	9780826506252

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