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Fighting the tide: Human Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global South
César Rodríguez Garavito (Dir.)
This text forms part of a long-term project undertaken by Dejusticia as part of its international work. The project revolves around the Global Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates that Dejusticia organizes each year to foster connections among and train a new generation of action researchers. The workshop helps participants develop action-research tools, understood as the combination of rigorous research and practical experience in social justice causes. For ten days, Dejusticia brings approximately fifteen participants and ten expert instructors to Colombia for a series of practical and interactive sessions on research, narrative writing, multimedia communication, and strategic reflection on the future of human rights. The aim is to strengthen participants’ capacity to produce hybrid-style texts that are at once rigorous and appealing to wide audiences. Participants are selected on the basis of an article proposal, which is then discussed during the workshop and subsequently developed with the help of an expert mentor (one of the instructors) over ten months until a publishable version is achieved, such as the chapters that make up this volume. The workshop also offers participants the opportunity to take advantage of new technologies and translate the results of their research and activism into diverse formats—from blogs, videos, and multimedia to social network communications and academic articles. Therefore, in addition to the annual volume comprising participants’ texts and instructors’ reflections, the workshop produces a blog in Spanish and English that features weekly entries by workshop alumni, written in the style described above. The title of the blog—Amphibious Accounts: Human Rights Stories from the Global South—owes itself to the fact that action research is “amphibious” in that its practitioners move seamlessly between different environments and worlds, from academic and political circles to local communities to media outlets to state entities. For those who are dedicated to the promotion of human rights, this often implies navigating these worlds in the global North and South alike. Each year, the workshop is centered on a particular current issue. In 2014, the topic was the intersections between human rights and environmental justice that I outlined at the beginning of this introduction. In addition to providing coherence to the book and the group of participants, the selected topic determines the workshop site in Colombia—for the sessions are held not in a classroom or convention center but in the middle of the field, in the very communities and places that are witnessing the issue firsthand.
Human Rights in Minefields: Extractive Economies, Environmental Conflicts, and Social Justice in the Global South
César Rodríguez Garavito (Dir.)
Este libro reúne los relatos de 16 investigadores activistas del Sur Global sobre diferentes temas de derechos humanos en sus respectivos países. Son el resultado del primer taller de investigación-acción que llevó a cabo Dejusticia.
Justice through Transitions: Conflict, Peacemaking and Human Rights in the Global South
César Rodríguez Garavito (Dir.); Meghan L. Morris (Dir.)
What does justice mean in times of transition? What kinds of possibilities and dissapointments emerge from processes of seeking justice through transition? How might we understand these processes through narrative? In August 2015, a group of Global South human rights activists and researchers gathered in Colombia for a workshop organized around the theme of transitional justice. This book, the third in a series, is the result of the discussions performed in that encounter. The chapters in this volume illustrate many complexities of transitional justice processes from the perspective of young human rights advocates involved in these struggles, many with their own complicated personal connections to the search for justice. These advocates hail from countries that have divergent relationships with the notion of transitional justice, from places deeply embedded in its norms and processes, such as Argentina and Colombia, to countries undergoing various kinds of transitions on very different terms, such as Turkey and Mexico. All of the chapters, however, write the messiness of seeking justice through transitions, spanning from the personal and intimate to the national and global. Together, these chapters beautifully illustrate both the pain and the political possibilities that come from the inability to leave history in the past, as well as the creativity of individual and collective efforts to seek justice through transitions. They also demonstrate the beauty of speaking, working, and writing justice from the hear
Raza y vivienda en Colombia: la segregación residencial y las condiciones de vida en las ciudades
Natalia Duarte Mayorga; Sebastián Villamizar Santamaría; María José Álvarez Rivadulla (Dir.); César Rodríguez Garavito (Dir.)
Este informe presenta los resultados de un estudio sobre condiciones de vida y segregación residencial en doce ciudades del país. ¿Qué implicaciones tiene que un barrio sea “de blancos”, “de negros” o “mezclado” en Colombia? A partir de una visión de sociología urbana, este informe presenta los resultados de un estudio sobre condiciones de vida y segregación residencial en doce ciudades del país. El documento muestra distintas formas en las que se combinan las vulnerabilidades socioeconómicas con la concentración de personas de un grupo racial en las ciudades. Ofrece, por tanto, insumos para el diseño de programas y políticas públicas que combatan la segregación y garanticen una mejor calidad de vida para los afrocolombianos, quienes son los más afectados por este fenómeno en el país.