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Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America

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  • © 2011

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  1. Gabriela Polit Dueñas
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  2. María Helena Rueda
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

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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

About the authors

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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