The End of the Future: Trauma, Memory, and Reconciliation in Peruvian Amazonia

In The End of the Future, author Bartholomew Dean broadens the theoretical framework for understanding memory's role in reconciliation following a violent conflict. This book explores the complicated and confusing linkages between memory and trauma for individuals caught up in civil war and post-conflict reconciliation in the Peruvian Amazon's Huallaga Valley-an epicenter for leftist rebels and a booming shadow economy based on the extraction and circulation of cocaine. The End of the Futur...