Living Displacement - The Loss and Making of Place in Colombia

Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives

List of contents

1. Introduction: reconceptualising displacement
2. Traversing the landscapes of (dis)trust
3. Displacement as an unwinding process
4. The road to Porvenir and Esperanza: the struggle for land
5. The making of a desplazado
6. Desplazado: to be or not to be
7. Displacement hierarchies: IDP community under question
8. Desplazados and their 'hosts': the quest for relational belonging
9. Taming the land
10. The remains of the place and times left behind
11. Conclusion: end of displacement?
References
Index

About the author

Mateja Celestina is Research Associate at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University

Summary

Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives -- .

Product details

• Authors: Dr Mateja Celestina, Mateja Celestina, Mateja (Research Associate At the Centr Celestina, Mateja (Research Associate at the Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University) Celestina
• Assisted by: Alexander Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781526108739
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0873-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: New Ethnographies; New Ethnographies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories