Overview
- Fills a gap in the literature addressing the 2002 massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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This book provides a socio-historical analysis of the 2002 massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó, Colombia. The author examines how the concepts of forced displacement and migration could be formulas for historical erasure. These concepts are used to name populations, such as the survivors of this massacre, and are limited in their ability to contribute to the demands for reparation of the affected populations. Instead, based on an ethnographic study of the pain and suffering generated in the survivors, the book proposes the concept of deracination as a tool to study land dispossession. It captures both the complex local specificities, the global linkages of this phenomenon and the strategies of resistance used by the people of this community to channel what seems as an impossible mourning.
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Aurora Vergara-Figueroa is Assistant Professor and Director of the Afrodiasporic Studies Center (CEAF) at Icesi University, Colombia
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Afrodescendant Resistance to Deracination in Colombia
Book Subtitle: Massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó
Authors: Aurora Vergara-Figueroa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59761-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59760-7Published: 16 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86695-6Published: 23 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59761-4Published: 26 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 123
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Latin American Politics, Migration, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Ethnography, History of the Americas