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By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes study the histories of Colombia over the last 2 centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the world.
List of contents
Preface: Colombia RevisitedLina Britto and A. Ricardo López-PedrerosIntroduction: Histories of PerplexityLina Britto and A. Ricardo López-PedrerosPart 1: Identifying Multiculturalism1. 1. A Conversation with an Afrodiasporic Humanist: Manuel Zapata Olivella in His Own Words
William Mina2. 2. Black Upward Mobility, Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Social Whitening in Colombia
Mara Viveros Vigoya3. 3. From Native to Raizal: Indigeneity and Anglophone Afro-Caribbean Heritage of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina
Sharika D. Crawford 4. 4. Campesino: A Contested Identity, a Vibrant Subjectivity in Colombia
Diana Bocarejo and
Carlos del Cairo Part 2: Surveying the Territorial State5. 5. A Country of Forests: Territorial State Building in Colombia
Claudia Leal6. Collective Land Titling and Neoliberalism in the Colombian Pacific Region
Marta Isabel Domínguez7. From Carbon Extraction to Blue and Green Extractivism: Demands of Radical Socio-Environmental Transformations in the Guajira
Astrid UlloaPart 3: Unpacking Drug Trafficking8. 8. Diplomacy, Drug Trafficking, and Political Repression: César Gaviria's Administration in Colombia, 1990-1994
Eduardo Sáenz Rovner9. 9. Narcotrafficking, Immigration, and Salsa Music: The Cali-New York Connection
Alejandro Ulloa Sanmiguel10. MONA®CO: Conversations on Narco-Phenomena and Contemporary Art in Colombia
Santiago Rueda and
Harold OrtizPart 4: Watching the Media1111. The Accidental Persona: The Media and Pablo Escobar
Catalina Uribe Rincón1212. The Moral Vision and Moral Performance of Photojournalist Jesús Abad Colorado
Alexander L. Fattal1313. Community Radio Stations and the Construction of Modern Indigeneity in Cauca
Diego Cortés1414. Social Media and the Musical Nation: Hegemonic Cooptation and the Making of a National Repertoire
Héctor Fernández L'HoestePart 5: Revisiting the Armed Conflict1515. Gendered Activism and Elite Formation on the Colombian Frontier: Lessons from the Life of Fátima Muriel
Winifred Tate1616. Coercive Brokerage: The Rise and Fall of Colombian Paramilitary Commander Hernán Giraldo, 1976-2006
Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín
1717. The Conflicts of Coca: Women's Struggles for Economic Autonomy in Coca-Growing Regions
Estefanía CiroPart 6: Laboring with Memory1818. Fluctuations and Paradoxes in Colombia's Long Cycle of Historical Memory, 2005-2021
María Emma Wills Obregón1919. Rendering the Unheard-of Believable: On
Fragmentos by Doris Salcedo and
Duelos by Clemencia Echeverri
María del Rosario Acosta López2020. "We gave them names:" Exhumations, Peace Agreement and Social Reparation in Bojayá, Chocó
Pilar Riaño Alcalá in collaboration with
José de la Cruz Valencia,
Natalia Quiceno, and
Camila Orjuela
About the author
Lina Britto is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is the author of
Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise.
A. Ricardo López-Pedreros is Professor of History at Western Washington University. He has been a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at University College London. He is the author of
Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Class in Colombia.
