ISBN:
9780230113787
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 258 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America
DDC:
303.6098
Keywords:
Political violence
;
Violence
;
Lateinamerika
;
Politik
;
Gewalt
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
"This volume includes contributions of scholars from various fields--the social sciences, journalism, the humanities and the arts--whose work offers insightful and innovative ways to understand the devastating and unprecedented forms of violence currently experienced in Latin America. As an interdisciplinary endeavor, it offers an array of perspectives that contribute to ongoing debates in the study of violence in the region"--
Abstract:
"This volume addresses a situation now perceived among the most pressing issues faced by Latin America in our times: the proliferation of increasingly complex forms of violence, a reality with multiple ramifications, marking the socio-political landscape of the region in decisive ways. With contributions by scholars from various fields (the social sciences, journalism, and the humanities), this book examines not only the manifestations and the effects of violence but also the social acts that surround it and make it meaningful. Violence appears here as a natural yet dramatic manifestation of how individuals organize themselves in contemporary Latin America"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Halftitle; Title; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Txitzi'n for the Poxnai: Indigenous Women's Discourses on Revolutionary Combat ; 2 Against Violence and Oblivion: The Case of Colombia's Disappeared; 3 Facing Unseen Violence: Ex-combatants Painting the War in Colombia ; 4 Considerations on Violence, the Global South, and an Aesthetics of Sobriety; 5 Urban Violence and the Politics of Representation in Recent Brazilian Film; 6 Ciudad Juárez, Femicide, and the State; 7 Chronicles of Everyday Life in Culiacán, Sinaloa
Description / Table of Contents:
8 An Aesthetic Event: Ricardo Wiesse's Cantutas and Political Violence in Peru9 Sound, Violence, and Politics: Critical Perspectives from Contemporary Rio de Janeiro; 10 (In)visible Connections and the Makings of Collective Violence; 11 Fuerte Apache; Afterword; Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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