Meanings of violence in contemporary 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 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. GABRIELA POLIT Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, USA. MARIA HELENA RUEDA Assistant Professor at Smith College, USA. INDICE: Against Violence and Oblivion: The Case of Colombia's Disappeared;'M.V.Uribe ' - Txitzi'n for the Poxnai: Indigenous Women's Discourses on Revolutionary Combat; 'A.Arias ' - Facing Unseen Violence: Ex-combatants Painting the War in Colombia; 'M.H.Rueda ' - Considerations on Violence, the Global South, and an Aesthetics of Sobriety; 'H.Herlinghaus ' - Urban Violence and the Politics of Representation in Recent Brazilian Film; 'M.Peixoto ' - Ciudad Juarez, Femicide, and the State; 'S.Tabuenca ' - Chronicles of Everyday Life in Culiacan; 'G.Polit' - Ricardo Wiesse's Cantutas; 'V.Vich ' - The Sounds of Violence: Critical Perspectives from Contemporary Brazil; 'S.Araújo' - (In)visible Connections and the Makings of Collective Violence; 'J.Auyero' & 'M.Mahler ' -Fuerte Apache; 'C.Alarcón'

• ISBN: 978-0-230-11378-7
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 19/08/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés