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03434aam a22003614a 4500 001 6241CF5C127C11E1BA0909E76AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20111119010058 008 110204s2011 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2011005473 020 $a 0230113788 (hardback) 020 $a 9780230113787 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)670481165 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d SILO $d YDXCP $d CDX $d UKMGB $d BWX $d IG# $d FXG $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a cl----- 050 00 $a HN110.5.Z9 $b V555 2011 050 00 $a HN110.5.Z9 $b V555 2011 084 $a POL029000 $a SOC026000 $a POL029000 $2 bisacsh 245 0 $a Meanings of violence in contemporary Latin America / $c edited by Gabriela Polit DueaÌnas and MaraÌia Helena Rueda. 260 $a New York : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2011. 300 $a vi, 258 p. : $b ill. ; $c 22 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: -- Txitzi'n for the Poxnai: Indigenous Women's Discourses on Revolutionary Combat / Arturo Arias -- Against Violence and Oblivion: The Case of Colombia's Disappeared -- MaraÌia Victoria Uribe AlarcaÌon -- Facing Unseen Violence: Ex-combatants Painting the War in Colombia / MaraÌia Helena Rueda -- Considerations on Violence, the Global South, and an Aesthetics of Sobriety / Hermann Herlinghaus -- Urban Violence and the Politics of Representation in Recent Brazilian Film / Marta Peixoto -- Ciudad JuaÌarez, Femicide, and the State / MaraÌia Socorro Tabuenca CaÌordoba -- Chronicles of Everyday Life in CuliacaÌan, Sinaloa / Gabriela Polit DueaÌnas -- An Aesthetic Event: Ricardo Wiesse's Cantutas and Political Violence in Peru / VaÌictor Vich -- Sound, Violence, and Politics: Critical Perspectives from Contemporary Rio de Janeiro / Samuel AraaÌujo -- (In)visible Connections and the Makings of Collective Violence / Javier Auyero and Matt Mahler -- Fuerte Apache / Cristian AlarcaÌon. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "This volume addresses a situation now perceived among the most pressing issues faced by Latin America in our times: the proliferation of increasingly complex forms of violence, a reality with multiple ramifications, marking the socio-political landscape of the region in decisive ways. With contributions by scholars from various fields (the social sciences, journalism, and the humanities), this book examines not only the manifestations and the effects of violence but also the social acts that surround it and make it meaningful. Violence appears here as a natural yet dramatic manifestation of how individuals organize themselves in contemporary Latin America"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Violence $z Latin America. 650 0 $a Political violence $z Latin America. 700 1 $a Polit DueaÌnas, Gabriela. 700 1 $a Rueda, Maria Helena, $d 1964- 941 $a 1 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20111119012648.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6241CF5C127C11E1BA0909E76AFF544EInitiate Another SILO Locator Search