Meanings of violence in contemporary Latin America
[Book]
edited by Gabriela Polit Dueñłas and Maria Helena Rueda.
New York
Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
(vi, 258 p.) : ill
Against Violence and Oblivion: The Case of Colombia's Disappeared -- Ma & rsquo;ra Victoria Uribe * Txitzi'n for the Poxnai: Indigenous Women's Discourses on Revolutionary Combat -- Arturo Arias * Facing Unseen Violence: Ex-combatants Painting the War in Colombia -- Ma & rsquo;ra Helena Rueda * Considerations on Violence, the Global South, and an Aesthetics of Sobriety -- Hermann Herlinghaus * Urban Violence and the Politics of Representation in Recent Brazilian Film-Marta Peixoto * Ciudad Juarez, Femicide, and the State -- Socorro Tabuenca * Chronicles of Everyday Life in Culiacan -- Gabriela Polit * Ricardo Wiesse's Cantutas -- Victor Vich * The Sounds of Violence: Critical Perspectives from Contemporary Brazil -- Samuel Ara︢jo€€€€€€ * (In)visible Connections and the Makings of Collective Violence -- Javier Auyero and Matt Mahler * Fuerte Apache -- Cristian Alar.cn. Machine generated contents note: -- Against Violence and Oblivion: The Case of Colombia's Disappeared -- Mari;a Victoria Uribe * Txitzi'n for the Poxnai: Indigenous Women's Discourses on Revolutionary Combat -- Arturo Arias * Facing Unseen Violence: Ex-combatants Painting the War in Colombia -- Mari;a Helena Rueda * Considerations on Violence, the Global South, and an Aesthetics of Sobriety -- Hermann Herlinghaus * Urban Violence and the Politics of Representation in Recent Brazilian Film-Marta Peixoto * Ciudad Juarez, Femicide, and the State -- Socorro Tabuenca * Chronicles of Everyday Life in Culiacan -- Gabriela Polit * Ricardo Wiesse's Cantutas -- Victor Vich * The Sounds of Violence: Critical Perspectives from Contemporary Brazil -- Samuel Araújo * (In)visible Connections and the Makings of Collective Violence -- Javier Auyero and Matt Mahler * Fuerte Apache -- Cristian Alarcón.
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 inThis 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 inThis 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",,,,,"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 theThis 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 thedevastating and unprecedented forms of violence currently experienced in Latin America.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 theThis 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 thedevastating and unprecedented forms of violence currently experienced in Latin America.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 theThis 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 thedevastating and unprecedented forms of violence currently experienced in Latin America.Read less