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Travel Like a Local - Map of Medellin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 50

Travel Like a Local - Map of Medellin

Get Ready For The Adventure Of A Lifetime! Are you planning your next vacation abroad and you're ready to explore? Do you want to be prepared for everything? Are you ready to experience every new place you visit just like a local? Well, with this amazing Medellin (Colombia) travel map you're all set and ready to go! The Medellin (Colombia) map was carefully designed to give you amazing results and make traveling easier than ever. We make sure to constantly update our info to give you the most relevant and accurate information, so you will never get confused or frustrated during your Medellin (Colombia) trip. The map is very detailed and it will not only give you all the available roads and r...

Social Urbanism and the Politics of Violence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 147

Social Urbanism and the Politics of Violence

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-01-23
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  • Publisher: Springer

Medellín, Colombia, used to be the most violent city on earth, but in recent years, allegedly thanks to its 'social urbanism' approach to regeneration, it has experienced a sharp decline in violence. The author explores the politics behind this decline and the complex transformations in terms of urban development policies in Medellín.

Religion, Culture, and Society in Colombia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 402

Religion, Culture, and Society in Colombia

"The book describes the crucial role played by religion and the Catholic Church, which underwent considerable growth after the turbulent period of mid-nineteenth century Liberal reforms until the end of the Conservative era in 1930. It traces the progress of parishes, devotional associations, religious communities, private and public religiosity, and numerous philanthropic societies."--BOOK JACKET.

Dwellers of Memory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Dwellers of Memory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Dwellers of Memory is an ethnographic study of how urban youth in Colombia came to be at the intersection of multiple forms of political, drug-related, and territorial violence in a country undergoing forty years of internal armed conflict. It examines the ways in which youth in the city of Medellin reconfigure their lives and, cultural worlds in the face of widespread violence. This violence has transgressed familiar boundaries and destroyed basic social supports and networks of trust. This volume attempts to map and understand its patterns and flows. The author explores how Medellin's youth locate themselves and make, sense of violence through contradictory and shifting memory practices. T...

Medellín and Beyond
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Medellín and Beyond

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-06-10
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A travel guide for hotels, restaurants and sites for Medellín, Colombia. A one of a kind guidebook with over 300 photos which also comes with a free e-book with color photos.

Religion, Society, and Culture in Colombia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

Religion, Society, and Culture in Colombia

This is the first detailed scholarly study of culture and sociability in Colombia during the period c. 1850 and 1930. Patricia Londoño-Vega gives a vivid picture of some of the factors that reduced social distances in the province of Antioquia during this period of relative harmony and prosperity. She examines hundreds of the groups and voluntary associations which flourished at this time and which brought a growing number of Antioqueños of different social backgrounds together around religious practices and societies, the exercising of charity, a concern for education, and the pursuit of cultural progress. The book describes the crucial role played by religion and the Catholic Church, whi...

Moon Medellín
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 274

Moon Medellín

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-03
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

Moon Travel Guides: Your World, Your Way Lush mountains, gorgeous haciendas, and perfect weather: explore Colombia's coffee country with Moon Medellín. Strategic plans for your trip with an adaptable week-long itinerary of the best of Medellín, a walking tour of the city, and highlights of the coffee region Curated advice from local writer Andrew Dier, who provides his American-expat perspective on his adopted country Full color maps and photos to help you explore on your own Activities for every traveler: Taste your way through nouvelle Colombian cuisine and dance the night away to salsa and cumbia music. Wander through the mountainside Biblioteca España, ride a gondola into the verdant ...

District 13 of Medellín: The Drama on the Armed Conflict in Medellin, Colombia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 180

District 13 of Medellín: The Drama on the Armed Conflict in Medellin, Colombia

This book is based on the human drama experience d by thousands of people who have been forever marked by the armed conflict in Comuna 13, which is a district of Medellín City, Colombia. It is a revealing testimony of the largest armed confrontation that has ever taken place within involved all legal and illegal armed groups of that time, and of which the civilian population was the main victim. Comuna 13 of Medellín is a district which is mostly inhabited by humble people with low income, who strive each day to meet theirs basic needs and to move ahead, even in the most precarious and unfavorable conditions. These are people who were innocently trapped in the midle of the conflict between the armed groups and became victims of different violent acts. This book is a tribute to the innocent victims, to those people who have suffered so much, and who were directly or indirectly exposed to such a traumatic existence. Also, to those who were innocent victims of the bullets in the armed conflict, which extinguished hundreds of lives.

City Maps Medellin Colombia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 24

City Maps Medellin Colombia

City Maps Medellin Colombia is an easy to use small pocket book filled with all you need for your stay in the big city. Attractions, pubs, bars, restaurants, museums, convenience stores, clothing stores, shopping centers, marketplaces, police, emergency facilities are only some of the places you will find in this map. This collection of maps is up to date with the latest developments of the city as of 2017. We hope you let this map be part of yet another fun Medellin adventure :)

Armed conflict in Medellín-Colombia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

Armed conflict in Medellín-Colombia

Algunos temas que contiene: El conflicto en el marco de las parroquias; Un conflicto eterno: iglesia y educación para la paz; Características de la educación para la paz; El papel de la iglesia en la pedagogía de la paz; La iglesia y el programa de paz y reconciliación de Medellín; Conflicto armado y comunidades vulnerables; La población en situación de desplazamiento: un caso de vulnerabilidad agudizado; Razones del desplazamiento (gráfico); Ubicación de la población desplazada más representativa del 2000 a junio 2005 (gráfico); Desplazados por municipios expulsores más representativos 2000 a junio 2005 (gráfico); La atención a la población en situación de desplazamiento; La realidad social como escenario de formación; Movimientos sociales, conflicto armado y sector eléctrico; Conflicto armado y atentado a la infraestructura; Medellín y sus violencias; El narcotráfico; Las milicias; Las bandas; Las autodefensas; Datos aproximados de la ubicación de la totalidad de desmovilizados ...