Territories of Conflict
Traversing Colombia through Cultural Studies
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This interdisciplinary volume investigates the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grass-root movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media productions.
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, grassroots movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media production. The volume investigates conflict as a creative force but one that is not devoid of its destructive meaning for Colombia. It is precisely through conflict that the nation's social and cultural fabric is being mapped out, thus resulting in territories -- understood in both a literal and a metaphorical sense -- that paradoxically coexist in discordance. Contributors to this interdisciplinary volumeinclude historians, sociologists, political scientists, musicologists, and environmentalists, as well as literary, media, and cultural studies specialists from the United States, Colombia, and Europe.
CONTRIBUTORS: Maurizio Alì, Ingrid Johanna Bolívar Ramírez, Margarita Cuéllar Barona, Andrea Fanta Castro, Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste, Joaquín Llorca Franco, David Fernando García, Felipe Gómez Gutiérrez, Álvaro Diego Hro-Olaizola, Stacey Hunt, Camilo Alberto Jiménez Alfonso, Gregory J. Lobo, Tatjana Louis, Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, María Ospina, Kate Paarlberg-Kvam, Diana Pardo Pedraza, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky, Chloe Rutter-Jensen, Claudia Salamanca Sánchez, Sven Schuster, Silvia Serrano,
Andrea Fanta Castro is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Florida International University; Alejandro Herrero-OIaizola is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies at the University of Michigan; and Chloe Rutter-Jensen is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
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, grassroots movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media production. The volume investigates conflict as a creative force but one that is not devoid of its destructive meaning for Colombia. It is precisely through conflict that the nation's social and cultural fabric is being mapped out, thus resulting in territories -- understood in both a literal and a metaphorical sense -- that paradoxically coexist in discordance. Contributors to this interdisciplinary volumeinclude historians, sociologists, political scientists, musicologists, and environmentalists, as well as literary, media, and cultural studies specialists from the United States, Colombia, and Europe.
CONTRIBUTORS: Maurizio Alì, Ingrid Johanna Bolívar Ramírez, Margarita Cuéllar Barona, Andrea Fanta Castro, Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste, Joaquín Llorca Franco, David Fernando García, Felipe Gómez Gutiérrez, Álvaro Diego Hro-Olaizola, Stacey Hunt, Camilo Alberto Jiménez Alfonso, Gregory J. Lobo, Tatjana Louis, Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, María Ospina, Kate Paarlberg-Kvam, Diana Pardo Pedraza, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky, Chloe Rutter-Jensen, Claudia Salamanca Sánchez, Sven Schuster, Silvia Serrano,
Andrea Fanta Castro is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Florida International University; Alejandro Herrero-OIaizola is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies at the University of Michigan; and Chloe Rutter-Jensen is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.
Introduction: Territories of Conflict through Colombian Cultural Studies
Narratives of the Past in History Textbooks
The Duty of Memory: La Violencia between Remembrance and Forgetting
National Identity in Colombian Comics: Between Violence and New Configurations
Victims and Warriors: Representations and Self-Representations of the FARC-EP and Its Leaders
Charisma and Nation in the Hegemony of Uribismo in Colombia
The Greenhouse Gaze: Climate and Culture in Colombia (1808-1934)
The Darién Gap: Political Discourse and Economic Development in Colombia
Safeguarding the Witoto: How Indigenous Law May Challengethe Universality of Human Rights
The Soundscape and the Reshaping of Territories:Neighborhood Sounds in San Nicolás, Cali
The Amputated Body: Ghostly and Literal Presence
Colombian Women Activists and the Potential for Peace
Beauty Queens and Theme Parks: Coffee Culture inContemporary Colombia
Amores Invisibles: The Politics of Gender in theColombian Cultural Industry
Unheard Claims, Well-Known Rhythms: The MusicalGuerrilla FARC-EP (1988-2010)
The Case of Chocquibtown: Approaches to the Nation inContemporary New Colombian Music
Weaving Words and Meanings for the ColombianCountryside: Jorge Velosa's Carranguera Lyrics
Natural Plots: The Rural Turn in ContemporaryColombian Cinema
Kidnapping and Representation: Images of a Sovereignin the Making
Going Down Narco Memory Lane: Pablo Escobar in theVisual Media
List of Contributors
Index
Narratives of the Past in History Textbooks
The Duty of Memory: La Violencia between Remembrance and Forgetting
National Identity in Colombian Comics: Between Violence and New Configurations
Victims and Warriors: Representations and Self-Representations of the FARC-EP and Its Leaders
Charisma and Nation in the Hegemony of Uribismo in Colombia
The Greenhouse Gaze: Climate and Culture in Colombia (1808-1934)
The Darién Gap: Political Discourse and Economic Development in Colombia
Safeguarding the Witoto: How Indigenous Law May Challengethe Universality of Human Rights
The Soundscape and the Reshaping of Territories:Neighborhood Sounds in San Nicolás, Cali
The Amputated Body: Ghostly and Literal Presence
Colombian Women Activists and the Potential for Peace
Beauty Queens and Theme Parks: Coffee Culture inContemporary Colombia
Amores Invisibles: The Politics of Gender in theColombian Cultural Industry
Unheard Claims, Well-Known Rhythms: The MusicalGuerrilla FARC-EP (1988-2010)
The Case of Chocquibtown: Approaches to the Nation inContemporary New Colombian Music
Weaving Words and Meanings for the ColombianCountryside: Jorge Velosa's Carranguera Lyrics
Natural Plots: The Rural Turn in ContemporaryColombian Cinema
Kidnapping and Representation: Images of a Sovereignin the Making
Going Down Narco Memory Lane: Pablo Escobar in theVisual Media
List of Contributors
Index
"[I]ts multi-focal approach and broad array of topics covered make this volume of great interest for a variety of scholars working on Latin-American, film, gender and critical race studies, and an indispensable resource for thoseinterested in Colombian cultural and violence studies." HISPANÓFILA
"Each chapter draws attention to a significant aspect of the Colombian conflict, raising questions and pointing out possible ways of tackling conflict .. this volume offers a multifocal and multilayered approach to account for its complexity." REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS COLUMBIANOS (trans. from Spanish)
"This exceptional compilation of controversial and often ignored topics appears at an opportune moment in Colombian history. It reflects the cartography of the 'territories of the conflict,' which are investigated beyond the official history and in dialogue with the proper analysis of violence, the memory, ethnicity, gender, music, film and the media. Territories of Confiict is undoubtedly the result of a solid and rigorous study that is welcome in the field of cultural studies on conflict and post-conflict in Colombia." REVISTA CANADIENSE DE ESTUDIOS HISPÁNICOS (transl. from Spanish
") The arrival of Territories of Conflict allows those interested in Colombian cultural and political studies to have a unique and rigorous resource. This monograph well exceeds the expectations of being a unique and indispensable tool for any academic course dealing with contemporary Colombian history." STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE (trans. from Spanish)
"The volume's essays cover a wide variety of subjects and multi-disciplinary approaches from US and Colombian authors, thus offering complementary and well-balanced views. In addition, the magnificent editorial work by Fanta Castro, Herrero-Olaizola and Rutter-Jensen makes this volume essential to an understanding of today's Colombia, its challenges and achievements as a nation. It is also worth mentioning the University of Rochester Press's bold initiative to include Latin American studies titles such as this one in their series." CHASQUI (translated from Spanish)
"'Territories of Conflict comes at a very opportune moment given the current juncture of the armed conflict in Colombia. The interplay among the essays creatively problematizes the ways in which cultural production simultaneously denounces and makes use of violence and conflict. This volume puts into dialogue multiple contexts and historical periods, from the long history of conflict and national formation and identity to some of the future challenges to be faced in a potential postconflict period.' -" Kevin Guerrieri, University of San Diego
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