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Histories of Solitude
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 last 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...
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...
A Dynamic Theory of Populism in Power
"The relationship between populism and democracy is a hotly debated topic. Some believe that populism is inherently bad for democracy because it is anti-pluralist and confrontational. Others argue that populism can reinvigorate worn-out democracies in need of an infusion of greater popular participation. This book advances this debate by examining the empirical relationship between populism in power and democracy in five Latin American countries. These cases reveal that populism in power does not always lead to the demise of democracy; rather, it does so only under certain varieties of populism. When populist chief executives are bent on using the state's repressive apparatus to subvert demo...
Born of War in Colombia
Born of War in Colombia addresses why people born of conflict-related sexual violence remain unseen within transitional justice agendas. In Colombia, there are generations of children born of conflict-related sexual violence across the country. Whispers of their presence have traveled outside their communities. They also exist within the country’s domestic reparations program, which entitles them to reparations. Drawing on an immersive feminist ethnography with a community that endured a paramilitary confinement, the book reveals how a past-oriented and harm-centered model of transitional justice has converged with a restricted notion of gendered victimhood and the patriarchal politics of reproduction to render the bodies and experiences of people born of conflict-related sexual violence unintelligible to those seeking to understand and address the consequences of war in Colombia.
War, Citizenship, Territory
For all too obvious reasons, war, empire, and military conflict have become extremely hot topics in the academy. Given the changing nature of war, one of the more promising areas of scholarly investigation has been the development of new theories of war and war’s impact on society. War, Citizenship, Territory features 19 chapters that look at the impact of war and militarism on citizenship, whether traditional territorially-bound national citizenship or "transnational" citizenship. The editors argue that while there has been an explosion of work on citizenship and territory, Western academia’s avoidance of the immediate effects of war (among other things) has led them to ignore war, which they contend is both pervasive and well nigh permanent. This volume sets forth a new, geopolitically based theory of war’s transformative role on contemporary forms of citizenship and territoriality, and includes empirical chapters that offer global coverage.
American Imaginaries
American Imaginaries examines the diverse societies and nations of the Western hemisphere as they have emerged across the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exploring cities, capitalism, nations, nationalism, and politics from both comparative and transnational perspectives, the book develops a unique approach based on the paradigms of civilizational analysis and social imaginaries. In addition to providing a fresh perspective on the Americas, American Imaginaries gives proper analysis of multinational and intra-national regions and, crucially, the civilizational force of resurgent indigenous nations. The book also covers regions often underemphasized in histories of the hemisphere, such as Central America and the Caribbean. The book will appeal to scholars and students of history, Atlantic studies, comparative and historical sociology, and social theory. In addition, it will gain audiences amongst academics and graduate students who follow debates about modernity, civilizations, historical constellations, and social imaginaries.
Tramas y conversaciones sobre lo común
Tramas y conversaciones sobre lo común es resultado del diálogo que surge desde los diversos "andares" académicos, políticos, afectivos y cotidianos, de quienes participaron de su escritura, con el fin de hablar de lo que sucede, de lo que se hace o se despliega para crear, componer y mantener lo colectivo, lo comunitario. Desde lugares de enunciación particulares y orientaciones de investigación diversas (colaborativa, militante, de archivo, de acompañamiento, entre otras), así como desde el ajuste y recreación de métodos de investigación y del ensamblaje interdisciplinar, este libro hace lecturas diversas sobre la complejidad y multidimensionalidad de la producción de lo común...
El eterno retorno del populismo en América Latina y el Caribe
Este libro reúne las ponencias del seminario Nuevas formas de democracia (CLACSO, 2007) y del coloquio Nuevos y viejos populismos (Universidad Javeriana y Goethe Institut, 2008) En total son 23 autores que reflexionan, plantean ideas teóricas y hacen estudios de caso específicos relacionados con la democracia, el populismo y el pluralismo en varios países de América Latina durante el siglo XX y en algunas de las políticas actuales
Investigar a la intemperie
El ejercicio contemporáneo de la investigación en las diferentes ciencias sociales implica pensar constantemente en los procesos metodológicos, su naturaleza, la supremacía del problema de investigación sobre los límites disciplinares y la incidencia de su trabajo en el presente, esto es, su política. Estos cuatro planos conforman un volumen que se ajusta, a su vez, en función de las fuentes, las preguntas de investigación, sus objetivos, la situación de quien investiga… Así, pensar el método involucra una combinatoria permanente de elementos que desborda los aspectos procedimentales y, por tanto, una falta de resguardo metodológico, disciplinar y ontológico, pues ni siquiera las comunidades con que dialogamos o las fuentes con que trabajamos nos garantizan de antemano su forma o su estabilidad a largo plazo.
¿Qué historia enseñar y para qué?
En la actualidad es muy común encontrarse con debates educativos y polémicas sobre la Historia. ¿Qué contenidos se deben enseñar? ¿Qué debemos incluir o excluir de nuestros currículos nacionales? Las discusiones sobre educación en Historia, sobre qué metodologías debemos elegir para llegar más hacia los jóvenes no pueden ser de mayor actualidad en nuestros días. Adicionalmente, vemos cómo el mundo cambia de manera vertiginosa, anunciando transformaciones en sociedades que son diversas y plurales, pero que otrora fueron pensadas en código homogéneo. La nación decimonónica, con sus narrativas y relatos, no ha sufrido una crítica ontológica, y aún permea en nuestras escuel...
