Persistence of Violence (eBook)

Colombian Popular Culture

Toby Miller (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2020
231 Seiten
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-1755-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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, "e;Hecha la ley, hecha la trampa"e; (When you pass a law, you create a loophole). Less cynically, and more poetically, the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.7.2020
• Co-Autor: Marta Milena Barrios, Jesus Arroyave Cabrera, Anamaria Tamayo Duque, Alfredo Sabbagh Fajardo, Olga Lucia Sorzano
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• ISBN-10: 1-9788-1755-X / 197881755X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-9788-1755-5 / 9781978817555