Danel Ruiz-Serna: Living territories and the ecological violence of war
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we welcome anthropologist Daniel Ruiz-Serna, whose work, situated in the Choco region of Colombia, aims to expose the entanglement of political and ecological violence whereby echoes of conflict/healing reverberate through place. In light of the enmeshment between war and land, Daniel welcomes a framework of living territories, as traced by his life/work with the diversity of human and more-than-human communities of Bajo Atrato, Choco.
Tune in as Daniel invokes questions around: What stories do the land and its respective guardians cry out in the face of ongoing damage—that which exceeds designated categories of violence, and thus, so-called systems of repair? Accordingly, when it comes to human and more-than-human rights, what are the shortcomings of legal justice systems insofar as they fail to consider the life and spirit of territory, as well as those who are inextricably tied to the life of such territory? How might the legal language of “justice” and “repair” be limited by, even tethered to, the roots of oppression? And what kinds of schisms, shifts, and stories are needed to reframe these concepts?
The musical offering featured in this episode When You Carried Me by Oropendola.
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| 1:40.5 | I came with this idea of ecological violence, essentially, to try to put it out to the fact that |
| 1:47.0 | what's happening in this region in terms of, let's say, depletion of natural resources or pollution |
| 1:54.0 | or transformation of land use. All those things is not just something that is happening to the environment. |
| 2:00.0 | Because again, the environment, the forests, the rivers are not just something that is happening to the environment because again |
| 2:01.5 | the environment the forests the rivers are not just the background for human actions |
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