We're joined on the podcast by Anthony Dest and Nikola García Johnson to discuss Anthony's new book, Dissident Peace: Autonomous Struggles and the State in Colombia, recently published by Stanford University Press.

We talk about their research and organizing work in Colombia and Chile, thinking through the contested meanings of autonomy and peace in movements there. We hear about the specific struggles of Afro-Colombian and Mapuche communities, and how recent uprisings have informed their strategies for self-governance.

LINKS:

--Dissident Peace: https://www.sup.org/books/anthropology/dissident-peace

--"The coca enclosure: Autonomy against accumulation in Colombia" - Anthony Dest, 2021: https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105166

--Nikola García Johnson: https://nikolagarcia.com/

--"Revisiting the Concept of Revolution" - Marcello Tarí & Nikola García, 2022: https://polarjournal.org/2022/03/31/revisiting-the-concept-of-revolution/

Anthony Dest is Assistant Professor and Gussenhoven Fellow in Geography and Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work is based on long-standing collaborations with Black and Indigenous social movements in Colombia. He is on the executive council of the International Peace Research Association, and his writings have been featured at NACLA (North American Congress in Latin America), and in Spanish at Pueblos en Camino.

Nikola García Johnson is a cultural anthropologist, writer, and educator based in Chile, whose work explores Mapuche autonomy, urban indigeneity, and everyday experiments in democracy. They're a postdoctoral fellow at Universidad de los Lagos, developing their book Emergent Citizenships on the everyday politics of autonomy across Mapuche urban and rural worlds.