Afrodescendant Resistance to Deracination in Colombia
Massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó
Authors: Vergara-Figueroa, Aurora
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- About this book
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This book provides a socio-historical analysis of the 2002 massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó, Colombia. The author examines how the concepts of forced displacement and migration could be formulas for historical erasure. These concepts are used to name populations, such as the survivors of this massacre, and are limited in their ability to contribute to the demands for reparation of the affected populations. Instead, based on an ethnographic study of the pain and suffering generated in the survivors, the book proposes the concept of deracination as a tool to study land dispossession. It captures both the complex local specificities, the global linkages of this phenomenon and the strategies of resistance used by the people of this community to channel what seems as an impossible mourning.
- About the authors
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Aurora Vergara-Figueroa is Assistant Professor and Director of the Afrodiasporic Studies Center (CEAF) at Icesi University, Colombia
- Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Beyond Sociology of Forced Migration
Pages 1-26
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The Region: Emptied Spaces and Geographies of Death in Colombia
Pages 27-52
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They Kill Us, Therefore We Exist?
Pages 53-68
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Suffering While Black. Resistance Amid Deracination
Pages 69-80
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Final Remarks: For an Afrodiasporic Feminist Sociology of Land Dispossession
Pages 81-90
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Afrodescendant Resistance to Deracination in Colombia
- Book Subtitle
- Massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó
- Authors
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- Aurora Vergara-Figueroa
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-59761-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-59761-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-59760-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-86695-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXXII, 123
- Number of Illustrations
- 5 b/w illustrations
- Topics
