** CALL FOR PAPERS **
Paramilitarism and the Problem of Justice in Colombia
March 16 - 17, 2018
St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge
What does it mean to deploy justice/injustice as an analytical lens focused on paramilitarism and its consequences? Grappling with the simultaneous centrality of in/justice to everyday life and its complex, contingent meanings, this workshop explores multifarious accounts of right-wing paramilitarism and the disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) processes of former combatants in Colombia, its human consequences, and emergence of neo-paramilitary groups. The workshop aims to gain a deep understanding of lived experiences of justice/injustice of demobilized soldiers (e.g., in respect, for instance, to their own DDR process), victims, and indeed, all other actors touched by paramilitarism. This workshop is concerned with both critically engaging in and reflecting on theorizing in/justice — understood here as an idea or practice — and uncovering the interrelated social, political, and economic dynamics and impacts of paramilitarism. Engaging analytically with in/justice may allow us to move towards toward fresh but deeply historicized understandings of paramilitarism and its many effects — including violence, dispossession, and illicit trade networks.
This workshop invites ethnographically rich, theoretical sophisticated papers addressing the above themes. Selected participants will be asked to submit a draft paper for pre-circulation by March 1st 2018.
Confirmed participants are Lesley Gill (Vanderbilt), Victoria Sanford (CUNY), Winifred Tate (Colby College) and Kimberly Theidon (Tufts), amongst others.
Limited funding may be available for scholars with limited or no resources available to them from their own institutions.
The deadline for abstracts is Sept 20th 2017. Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words and a brief biographical statement to Sandra Brunnegger <[log in to unmask]>.
— Sandra Brunnegger
St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge
& Harvard Law School
+44 (0) 1223 336250
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