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Histories of Perplexity
By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity—study the histories of Colombia over the past two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas. The volumes bring together over 40 scholars based in Colombia, the United States, England, and Canada working in various disciplines to discuss how a country that has been consistently presented as a rarity in Latin America provides critical examples to re-examine major historical problems: republicanism and liberalism; export economies and agrarian modernization; populism and cultural politics of state fo...
Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture
With a focus on the object and where it is situated, in time (memory) and space (mobility), Memory, Mobility, and Material Culture embodies a multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approach. The chapters track the movement of the objects and their owner(s), within and between continents, countries, cities, and families. Objects have always been considered with an eye to their worth – economic, aesthetic, and/or functional. If that worth is diminished, their meaning and value disappear, they are just things. Yet things can still fulfil functions in our daily lives; they hold symbolic potential, from personal memory triggers, to focal points of public ritual and religion; from collectors...
Violence and Resistance, Art and Politics in Colombia
This book explores the historical and contemporary connections between art and politics in Colombia. These relations are unique because of the ways in which they are saturated by violence, as the country has passed through conquest, struggles for Independence, fighting between political factions, civil war, paramilitaries, narco-traffickers and state violence. This seemingly unending stream of violence gives art in Colombia one of its main themes. The lavishly illustrated essays, written by Colombian authors, examine Colombian visual arts, music, theatre, literature, cinema, indigenous arts, popular culture, militant publications and recent protest movements, analysing them with tools drawn from contemporary philosophy and theory. Approaches include decolonisation theory, cosmopolitics, anthropology after the ontological turn, Colombian philosophy, feminism, and French theory. The essays all offer powerful understandings of how art has not only been complicit in perpetuating political violence in Colombia, but also how it has been a vital form of analysis and resistance.
Colombia
Michael J. LaRosa and Germán R. Mejía offer a comprehensive approach to Colombian history in the post-independence era, from about 1810 to the present. This third edition includes vital updates that dive into the historic 2022 presidential election and signing of the Peace Accords with FARC in 2016. This deeply informed and accessible book thematically traces the history of Colombia, moving beyond the common perception of a failed state to explore the rich heritage and dynamism that have characterized Colombia past and present. The book focuses on the factors that have contributed to Colombia’s unification and development and looks at political projects, economic activity, and cultural development that have pushed Colombia forward. Also included are a photo essay, detailed chronology for further study and research, and a chapter dealing with Colombians abroad.
Uncovering Stranger Things
The Duffer Brothers' award-winning Stranger Things exploded onto the pop culture scene in 2016. The Netflix original series revels in a nostalgic view of 1980s America while darkly portraying the cynical aspects of the period. This collection of 23 new essays explores how the show reduces, reuses and recycles '80s pop culture--from the films of Spielberg, Carpenter and Hughes to punk and synthwave music to Dungeons & Dragons--and how it shapes our understanding of the decade through distorted memory. Contributors discuss gender and sexual orientation; the politics, psychology and educational policies of the day; and how the ultimate upper-class teen idol of the Reagan era became Stranger Things' middle-aged blue-collar heroine.
Haunting without Ghosts
An ambitious critical account of "spectral realism," a new, politically charged strain of literature, film, and art that responds to Colombia's drug wars, paramilitary violence, and resulting demands for justice.
Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production
This volume explores how Colombian novelists, artists, performers, activists, musicians, and others seek to enact—to perform, to stage, to represent—human rights situations that are otherwise enacted discursively, that is, made public or official, in juridical and political realms in which justice often remains an illusory or promised future. In order to probe how cultural production embodies the tensions between the abstract universality of human rights and the materiality of violations on individual human bodies and on determined groups, the volume asks the following questions: How does the transmission of historical traumas of Colombia’s past, through human rights narratives in vari...
Los rostros, las tumbas y los rastros
Este libro se ocupa de prácticas artísticas realizadas en territorios del conflicto armado en Colombia. Este contacto con el territorio transformó la manera de asumir la relación entre arte y violencia, una relación permanente en la historia del arte colombiano desde la década del 40. En este cambio de relación, la dimensión del duelo y la metáfora del cementerio resultan centrales: más que la denuncia, la concientización o la sensibilización del público, el arte busca saldar las deudas simbólicas con los muertos y los desaparecidos. Por otro lado, estas prácticas han construido dispositivos de activación del habla que cumplen un papel importante en la construcción de memoria histórica. Esta investigación asume una posición: reconocer el potencial simbólico del arte para exteriorizar los “dolores heredados”, una forma de contrarrestar la repetición de la violencia en forma de venganza (“los odios heredados”). En ese sentido, el dolor no se asume de manera pasiva sino a partir de su potencial: el que se articula comunitariamente y crea vínculos de solidaridad, tanto afectivos como políticos.
Pensar la escena.
Con el auge que han tenido las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación en años recientes, la crítica y los debates en torno al arte contemporáneo se han desplazado de los medios impresos al Internet. Pensar la escena presenta un conjunto de debates del campo del arte contemporáneo que han tenido lugar en Esfera Pública, portal de discusión en Internet en el que artistas, críticos y curadores han debatido colectivamente sobre la actividad artística, las prácticas institucionales y eventos como salones de arte, bienales, curadurías independientes e institucionales. El libro aborda seis temas sobre los que se ha reflexionado reiteradamente en este foro y que ponen en evidencia problem...
Narrativas artísticas del conflicto armado colombiano
En Colombia, las memorias colectivas de las víctimas y los lenguajes artísticos a través de los cuales encuentran una expresión pública nos permiten navegar hacia el pasado para comprender de dónde venimos, los significados de las grietas que nos dividen, las marcas que han dejado los horrores que hemos recorrido, así como los corajes y las solidaridades que nos constituyen. Gracias a estas formas expresivas, el sufrimiento, los paisajes heridos, los miedos, las resiliencias, la voluntad de persistir y los desamparos experimentados por las víctimas se actualizan y se transforman en "pasado vivo" ante unos públicos que, o no han querido confrontar la tragedia, o no han logrado descif...
