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Pensamiento colombiano del siglo XX
CONTENIDO: Agustín Nieto Caballero / Humberto Quiceno / - Antonio García Nossa / Juan Carlos Villamizar / - Baldomero Sanín Cano / Rubén Sierra / - Camilo Arturo Torres / Javier Ocampo / Ernesto Huhl / Ovidio Delgado / - Estanislao Zuleta / Alberto Valencia / - Gerardo Molina / Darío Acevedo / - Gonzalo Arango / Diego Pineda / - Ignacio Torres Giraldo / Álvaro Oviedo / - Indalecio Liévano Aguirre / Mauricio Archila / - Jorge Gaitán Durán / David Jiménez / - Luis Carlos Galán / Oscar Guardiola-Rivera / - Luis López de Mesa / Carlos Uribe / - Manuel Quintín Lame / Mónica Espinosa / - Marta Traba / Beatriz González / - Nicolás Gómez Dávila / Juan Fernando Mejía / - Rafael María Carrasquilla / Óscar Saldarriaga / - Virginia Gutiérrez de Pineda / Ligia Echeverri.
Forgotten Peace
Forgotten Peace examines Colombian society’s attempt to move beyond the Western Hemisphere’s worst mid-century conflict and shows how that effort molded notions of belonging and understandings of the past. Robert A. Karl reconstructs encounters between government officials, rural peoples, provincial elites, and urban intellectuals during a crucial conjuncture that saw reformist optimism transform into alienation. In addition to offering a sweeping reinterpretation of Colombian history—including the most detailed account of the origins of the FARC insurgency in any language—Karl provides a Colombian vantage on global processes of democratic transition, development, and memory formation in the 1950s and 1960s. Broad in scope, Forgotten Peace challenges contemporary theories of violence in Latin America.
Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America
This edited volume studies the relationship between big business and the Latin American dictatorial regimes during the Cold War. The first section provides a general background about the contemporary history of business corporations and dictatorships in the twentieth century at the international level. The second section comprises chapters that analyze five national cases (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay and Peru), as well as a comparative analysis of the banking sector in the Southern Cone (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay). The third section presents six case studies of large companies in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Central America. This book is crucial reading because it provides the first comprehensive analysis of a key yet understudied topic in Cold War history in Latin America.
Mennocostals
Pentecostal and Mennonite contributors to this volume have been enriched by mutual hospitality. Through friendships across their respective traditions, they have shared and received the benefits of theological, experiential, and ministry convergence. In celebration of their common journeys, they offer their collective lives as Mennocostals. You will enjoy inspiring, honest, and vulnerable accounts of formation and ministry from academics, pastors, and missionaries. If you find these Mennocostal stories compelling, you will invariably want to discover your own story alongside and beyond the stories in this volume.
Reading the Walls of Bogotá
A cultural imaginary is a structuring space through which collective understandings of cultural and society phenomena are formed, reproduced, and accepted as the norm. Reading the Walls of Bogotá uses graffiti and street art to explore the urban imaginaries of violence in Bogotá, Colombia. These artistic forms are produced and received in different ways in different areas of the city and offer an insight into citizens’ everyday experiences and perceptions of violence from the political, to the personal, to that of structural inequality. Through graffiti, in which critiques of memory, space, politics, and aesthetics are embedded, artists and their viewers form vernacular theories through which they interpret the world and the spaces they inhabit. By focusing on creative expression, Alba Griffin shows how Bogotá’s residents respond to imaginaries of violence, how they critique the norms, how they appropriate space to challenge or negotiate violence, and how they push back against inequality.
State Theory and Andean Politics
In the last few decades, Andean states have seen major restructuring of the organization, leadership, and reach of their governments. With these political tremors come major aftershocks, regarding both definitions and expectations: What is a state? Who or what makes it up, and where does it reside? In what capacity can the state be expected to right wrongs, raise people up, protect them from harm, maintain order, or provide public services? What are its powers and responsibilities? State Theory and Andean Politics attempts to answer these questions and more through an examination of the ongoing process of state-creation in Andean nations. Focusing on the everyday, extra-official, and frequen...
La Violencia años cincuenta contada por sus víctimas
Cuando una sociedad pasa por un conflicto interno de violencia o una guerra con el exterior debe realizar al menos tres tareas, para restablecer la institucionalidad y garantizar la no repetición de lo sucedido: la reparación de las víctimas y de los daños, la identificación y la sanción de los responsables y la elaboración del significado de lo sucedido. Con ocasión de la firma de los acuerdos de paz de 2016 Colombia se encuentra comprometida en estos tres procesos. Sin embargo, la experiencia al respecto ha sido muy pobre en la larga historia del conflicto colombiano. Para aprender de la historia y no repetirla este libro estudia la manera como se resolvieron estos tres aspectos en...
Pensar el país
Las columnas de opinión son consideradas un género fugaz cuya vigencia está supeditada a la periodicidad del medio en que se publican. Las 154 columnas publicadas en este libro, aparecidas en el periódico El País de Cali desde mayo de 1998, fueron escritas con la intención de ir a contrapelo de esta tendencia. Aunque construidas casi todas ellas tomando como referencia una situación particular, aspiran a convertirse en pequeños ensayos con vocación de permanencia en el tiempo. Buscan identificar y recuperar en cada caso concreto un problema de reflexión, de carácter general, que vaya más allá de la coyuntura que les sirve de punto de partida. Además, han sido escritas como una forma de llevar a cabo una pedagogía de la democracia, en todos sus matices: reconocimiento del conflicto y la diferencia, control al uso del poder, derechos humanos, cultura y paz. El ensayo "La democracia: una promesa indefinida de igualdad", que aparece como Presentación del libro, ilustra con todo detalle el trasfondo intelectual desde el cual se descifran los problemas comprometidos en cada uno de los textos. El lector juzgará si estos dos objetivos se han cumplido.
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...
La invención de la desmemoria
"Esta obra trata sobre un episodio prácticamente silenciado en la historiografía del país: el proceso que se entabló contra el general Rojas Pinilla después de su derrocamiento en 1957 y ante su regreso inesperado a Colombia después de un período en el exterior. El proceso tiene todas las características de una cortina de humo, como lo comenta el autor. Y está orientado sobre todo a evitar que sean evocadas las responsabilidades de los dirigentes de los dos partidos en la Violencia, dirigentes que en su gran mayoría estuvieron vinculados con el gobierno del General." Daniel Pécaut
