Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Gabriela Polit Dueñas, María Helena Rueda

   Pages 1-10

3. Txitzi’n for the Poxnai: Indigenous Women’s Discourses on Revolutionary Combat

   • Arturo Arias

   Pages 11-35

4. Against Violence and Oblivion: The Case of Colombia’s Disappeared

   • María Victoria Uribe Alarcóon

   Pages 37-52

5. Facing Unseen Violence: Ex-combatants Painting the War in Colombia

   • María Helena Rueda

   Pages 53-74

6. Considerations on Violence, the Global South, and an Aesthetics of Sobriety

   • Hermann Herlinghaus

   Pages 75-89

7. Urban Violence and the Politics of Representation in Recent Brazilian Film

   • Marta Peixoto

   Pages 91-114

8. Ciudad Juárez, Femicide, and the State

   • María Socorro Tabuenca Córdoba

   Pages 115-147

9. Chronicles of Everyday Life in Culiacán, Sinaloa

   • Gabriela Polit Dueñas

   Pages 149-168

10. An Aesthetic Event: Ricardo Wiesse’s Cantutas and Political Violence in Peru

    • Víctor Vich

    Pages 169-181

11. Sound, Violence, and Politics: Critical Perspectives from Contemporary Rio de Janeiro

    • Samuel Araújo

    Pages 183-196

12. (In)visible Connections and the Makings of Collective Violence

    • Javier Auyero, Matthew Mahler

    Pages 197-222

13. Fuerte Apache

    • Cristian Alarcón

    Pages 223-234

14. Afterword

    • Mary Roldán

    Pages 235-243

15. Back Matter

    Pages 245-258

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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.

• politics
• revolution
• social science
• violence
• war
• work
• latin american politics

"This book addresses some of the most important topics on violence throughout the Americas. It constitutes a good reader for students to learn what violence has brought to the continent and to decide what are the networks of meaning violence relates to." - Prof. Ileana Rodríguez, Humanities Distinguished Professor, The Ohio State University

GABRIELA POLIT Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, USA.   MARIA HELENA RUEDA Assistant Professor at Smith College, USA.

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