Book Launch When Forest Run Amok by Daniel Ruiz-Serna
Fri, Apr 21
|Montréal


Time & Location
Apr 21, 2023, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Montréal, 3460 Rue McTavish, Montréal, QC H3A 0E6, Canada
About the Event
Please join us for the launch of Daniel Ruiz-Serna's new book When Forests Run Amok.
Register here
The launch will take place at McGill on April 21st in Peterson Hall 116 (12-2pm)
with discussants Dr. Colin Scott (McGill) and Dr. Kregg Hetherington (Concordia).
In When Forests Run Amok Daniel Ruiz-Serna follows the afterlives of war, showing how they affect the variety of human and nonhuman beings that compose the region of Bajo Atrato: the traditional land of Indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples. Attending to Colombia’s armed conflict as an experience that resounds in the lives and deaths of people, animals, trees, rivers, and spirits, Ruiz-Serna traces a lasting damage that brought Indigenous peoples to compel the Colombian government to legally recognize their territories as victims of war. Although this recognition extends transitional justice into new terrains, Ruiz-Serna considers the collective and individual wounds that continue unsettling spirits, preventing shamans from containing…