Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America
Editors: Rueda, Maria Helena, Polit Dueñas, Gabriela (Eds.)
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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GABRIELA POLIT Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. MARIA HELENA RUEDA Assistant Professor at Smith College, USA.
- Reviews
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"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
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-10
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Txitzi’n for the Poxnai: Indigenous Women’s Discourses on Revolutionary Combat
Pages 11-35
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Against Violence and Oblivion: The Case of Colombia’s Disappeared
Pages 37-52
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Facing Unseen Violence: Ex-combatants Painting the War in Colombia
Pages 53-74
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Considerations on Violence, the Global South, and an Aesthetics of Sobriety
Pages 75-89
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America
- Editors
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- Maria Helena Rueda
- Gabriela Polit Dueñas
- Copyright
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-230-12003-7
- DOI
- 10.1057/9780230120037
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-11378-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-29554-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 258
- Topics
