Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-216) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: The Persistence of Violence -- 1. The Absence and Presence of State Militarism : Violence, Football, Narcos / with Alfredo Sabbagh Fajardo -- 2. Industry Policy and Sex Tourism Meet the Case of the Destroyed Plaque / with Olga Lucia Sorzano and Anamaria Tamayo-Duque -- 3. "I Myself Had to Remain Silent When They Threatened My Children" : Colombian Journalists Meet Prime-Time Narcos / with Marta Milena Barrios and Jesús Arroyave -- 4. Green Passion Afloat: The Magdalena River / with Marta Milena Barrios -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Authors.
Summary:
"Colombia's headline story, about the peace process with guerrilla and its attendant controversies, does not consider the fundamental contradiction of a nation that spans generosity and violence, warmth and hatred--products of its particular pattern of invasion, dispossession, and enslavement. The Persistence of Violence fills that gap in understanding. Colombia is a place that is two countries in one--the ideal and the real--summed up in the idiomatic expression, not unique to Colombia, but particularly popular there, 'Hecha la ley, hecha la trampa' (When you pass a law, you create a loophole). Less cynically, and more poetically, the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez deemed Colombians capable of both the most noble acts and the most abject ones, in a world where it seems anyone might do anything, from the beautiful to the horrendous.The Persistence of Violence draws on those contradictions and paradoxes to look at how violence--and resistance to it--characterize Colombian popular culture, from football to soap opera to journalism to tourism to the environment"--Page 4 of cover.
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