Territories of conflict : traversing Colombia through cultural studies /

Territories of Conflict offers a comprehensive view of the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through in-depth analyses of citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grass-root movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media production. This volume inve...

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Other Authors: Fanta, Andrea (Editor), Herrero-Olaizola, Alejandro (Editor), Rutter-Jensen, Chloe (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Territories of conflict through Colombian cultural studies / Andrea Fanta Castro, Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, and Chloe Rutter-Jensen
  • Part One. Violence, memory, and nation. Narratives of the past in history textbooks / Tatjana Louis
  • The duty of memory : La Violencia between remembrance and forgetting / Sven Schuster
  • National identity in Colombian comics : between violence and new configurations / Felipe Gomez Gutierrez
  • Victims and warriors : representations and self-representations of the FARC-EP and its leaders / Camilo Alberto Jimenez Alfonso
  • Charisma and nation in the hegemony of Uribismo in Colombia / Gregory Lobo
  • Part Two. Space, ethnicity, and the environment. The greenhouse gaze : climate and culture in Colombia (1808-1928) / Felipe Martínez-Pinzón
  • The Darién Gap : political discourse and economic development in Colombia / Maurizio Ali
  • Safeguarding the Witoto : how Indigenous law may challenge the universality of human rights / Alvaro Diego Herrera Arango
  • The soundscape and the reshaping of territories : neighborhood sounds in San Nicolas, Cali / Margarita Cuillar Barona and Joaquin Llorca Franco
  • Part Three. Body and gender politics. The amputated body : ghostly and literal presence / Diana Paola Pardo Pedraza
  • Colombian women activists and the potential for peace / Kate Paarlberg-Kvam
  • Beauty queens and theme parks : coffee culture in contemporary Colombia / Stacey L. Hunt
  • Amores invisibles : the politics of gender in the Colombian cultural industry / Héctor Fernández l'Hoeste
  • Part Four. Musical and visual landscapes. Unheard claims, well-known rhythms : the musical guerrilla FARC-EP (1988-2010) / Ingrid Johanna Bolivar Ramirez
  • The case of Chocquibtown : approaches to the nation in contemporary new Colombian music / David Fernando Garcia
  • Weaving words and meanings for the Colombian countryside : Jorge Velosa's Carranguera lyrics / Silvia Serrano
  • Natural plots : the rural turn in contemporary Colombian cinema / Maria Ospina
  • Kidnapping and representation : images of a sovereign in the making / Claudia Liliana Salamanca Sanchez
  • Going down narco memory lane : Pablo Escobar in the visual media / Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky.