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The Persistence of Violence
Colombian Popular Culture
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2020
About this book
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.
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TOBY MILLER is Stuart Hall Professor of Cultural Studies, Universidad Autónoma de México—Cuajimalpa. The author and editor of over forty books, his most recent volumes are El trabajo cultural, Greenwashing Culture, Greenwashing Sport, and The Routledge Handbook of Global Cultural Policy.
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"Both eloquent and straightforward, Toby Miller artfully contextualizes violence in the culture of Colombia. The Persistence of Violence brings together the study of popular culture, political economy, and social movement issues in ways that offer a fresh view to scholarship of the region."
— George Yúdice, author of The Expediency of CultureTopics
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CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION. The Persistence of Violence
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1. THE ABSENCE AND PRESENCE OF STATE MILITARISM
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2. INDUSTRY POLICY AND SEX TOURISM MEET THE CASE OF THE DESTROYED PLAQUE
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3. “I MYSELF HAD TO REMAIN SILENT WHEN THEY THREATENED MY CHILDREN”
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4. GREEN PASSION AFLOAT
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CONCLUSION
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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NOTES
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REFERENCES
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INDEX
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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September 7, 2020
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9781978817555
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Keywords for this book
persistence; Violence; colombia; colombian Culture; Cultural Studies; Latin American Studies; Race; Sports; Recreation; Political Science; Anthropology; Cultural; Soccer; Political Economy; Latin America; South America; popular culture; Ethnic Studies; Sociology; football; cynical; poetical; Gabriel García Márquez; contradictions; paradoxes; Sex; Tourism; Colombian Journalists; Self-Censorship; Marta Milena Barrios; Jesús Arroyave Cabrera
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
