Please join us for the launch of Daniel Ruiz-Serna's new book When Forests Run Amok. 

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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…