Afrodescendant Resistance to Deracination in Colombia [electronic resource] : Massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó /
Vergara-Figueroa, Aurora.author.
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. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1: Beyond Sociology of Forced Migration -- 2: The Region: Emptied spaces and Geographies of death in Colombia -- 3: They Kill Us, Therefore We Exist? -- 4: Suffering while Black, Resistance amid Displacement -- 5: Final Remarks.
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. .
Latin America-Politics and government.
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Latin American Politics.
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