The Persistence of Violence : Colombian Popular Culture /
Miller, Toby
The Persistence of Violence : Colombian Popular Culture / Toby Miller. - 1 online resource (232 p.) : 14 b&w images, 7 tables
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION. The Persistence of Violence -- 1. THE ABSENCE AND PRESENCE OF STATE MILITARISM -- 2. INDUSTRY POLICY AND SEX TOURISM MEET THE CASE OF THE DESTROYED PLAQUE -- 3. "I MYSELF HAD TO REMAIN SILENT WHEN THEY THREATENED MY CHILDREN" -- 4. GREEN PASSION AFLOAT -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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Colombia's headline story, about the peace process with guerrilla and its attendant controversies, does not consider the fundamental contradiction of a nation that spans generosity and violence, warmth and hatred-products of its particular pattern of invasion, dispossession, and enslavement. The Persistence of Violence fills that gap in understanding. Colombia is a place that is two countries in one-the ideal and the real-summed up in the idiomatic expression, not unique to Colombia, but particularly popular there, "Hecha la ley, hecha la trampa" (When you pass a law, you create a loophole). Less cynically, and more poetically, the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez deemed Colombians capable of both the most noble acts and the most abject ones, in a world where it seems anyone might do anything, from the beautiful to the horrendous.The Persistence of Violence draws on those contradictions and paradoxes to look at how violence-and resistance to it-characterize Colombian popular culture, from football to soap opera to journalism to tourism to the environment.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781978817555
10.36019/9781978817555 doi
2019045294
Popular culture--Columbia.
Violence in popular culture--Colombia.
Violence--Colombia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
F2279 F2279
303.609861
The Persistence of Violence : Colombian Popular Culture / Toby Miller. - 1 online resource (232 p.) : 14 b&w images, 7 tables
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION. The Persistence of Violence -- 1. THE ABSENCE AND PRESENCE OF STATE MILITARISM -- 2. INDUSTRY POLICY AND SEX TOURISM MEET THE CASE OF THE DESTROYED PLAQUE -- 3. "I MYSELF HAD TO REMAIN SILENT WHEN THEY THREATENED MY CHILDREN" -- 4. GREEN PASSION AFLOAT -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Colombia's headline story, about the peace process with guerrilla and its attendant controversies, does not consider the fundamental contradiction of a nation that spans generosity and violence, warmth and hatred-products of its particular pattern of invasion, dispossession, and enslavement. The Persistence of Violence fills that gap in understanding. Colombia is a place that is two countries in one-the ideal and the real-summed up in the idiomatic expression, not unique to Colombia, but particularly popular there, "Hecha la ley, hecha la trampa" (When you pass a law, you create a loophole). Less cynically, and more poetically, the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez deemed Colombians capable of both the most noble acts and the most abject ones, in a world where it seems anyone might do anything, from the beautiful to the horrendous.The Persistence of Violence draws on those contradictions and paradoxes to look at how violence-and resistance to it-characterize Colombian popular culture, from football to soap opera to journalism to tourism to the environment.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781978817555
10.36019/9781978817555 doi
2019045294
Popular culture--Columbia.
Violence in popular culture--Colombia.
Violence--Colombia.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
F2279 F2279
303.609861