This interdisciplinary volume investigates the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grass-root movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media productions.

This interdisciplinary volume investigates the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grass-root movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media productions.



Territories of Conflict offers a comprehensive view of the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through in-depth analyses of citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grassroots movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media production. The volume investigates conflict as a creative force but one that is not devoid of its destructive meaning for Colombia. It is precisely through conflict that the nation's social and cultural fabric is being mapped out, thus resulting in territories -- understood in both a literal and a metaphorical sense -- that paradoxically coexist in discordance. Contributors to this interdisciplinary volumeinclude historians, sociologists, political scientists, musicologists, and environmentalists, as well as literary, media, and cultural studies specialists from the United States, Colombia, and Europe.



CONTRIBUTORS: Maurizio Alì, Ingrid Johanna Bolívar Ramírez, Margarita Cuéllar Barona, Andrea Fanta Castro, Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste, Joaquín Llorca Franco, David Fernando García, Felipe Gómez Gutiérrez, Álvaro Diego Hro-Olaizola, Stacey Hunt, Camilo Alberto Jiménez Alfonso, Gregory J. Lobo, Tatjana Louis, Felipe Martínez-Pinzón, María Ospina, Kate Paarlberg-Kvam, Diana Pardo Pedraza, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky, Chloe Rutter-Jensen, Claudia Salamanca Sánchez, Sven Schuster, Silvia Serrano,



Andrea Fanta Castro is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Florida International University; Alejandro Herrero-OIaizola is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies at the University of Michigan; and Chloe Rutter-Jensen is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

Introduction: Territories of Conflict through Colombian Cultural Studies

Narratives of the Past in History Textbooks

The Duty of Memory: La Violencia between Remembrance and Forgetting

National Identity in Colombian Comics: Between Violence and New Configurations

Victims and Warriors: Representations and Self-Representations of the FARC-EP and Its Leaders

Charisma and Nation in the Hegemony of Uribismo in Colombia

The Greenhouse Gaze: Climate and Culture in Colombia (1808-1934)

The Darién Gap: Political Discourse and Economic Development in Colombia

Safeguarding the Witoto: How Indigenous Law May Challengethe Universality of Human Rights

The Soundscape and the Reshaping of Territories:Neighborhood Sounds in San Nicolás, Cali

The Amputated Body: Ghostly and Literal Presence

Colombian Women Activists and the Potential for Peace

Beauty Queens and Theme Parks: Coffee Culture inContemporary Colombia

Amores Invisibles: The Politics of Gender in theColombian Cultural Industry

Unheard Claims, Well-Known Rhythms: The MusicalGuerrilla FARC-EP (1988-2010)

The Case of Chocquibtown: Approaches to the Nation inContemporary New Colombian Music

Weaving Words and Meanings for the ColombianCountryside: Jorge Velosa's Carranguera Lyrics

Natural Plots: The Rural Turn in ContemporaryColombian Cinema

Kidnapping and Representation: Images of a Sovereignin the Making

Going Down Narco Memory Lane: Pablo Escobar in theVisual Media

List of Contributors

Index