Counting the dead
Subtitle: the culture and politics of human rights activism in Colombia
By: Winifred Tate.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520252820; 9780520252837
Subjects: Human rights advocacy -- Colombia; Political persecution -- Colombia; Colombia -- Politics and government -- 1974-; Colombia -- Social conditions, -- 1970-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Colombia : mapping the eternal crisis; title: Solidarity with our class brothers : the first wave of human rights activism in Colombia; title: The production of human rights knowledge and the practice of politics; title: The emotional politics of activism in the 1990s; title: The global imaginaries of Colombian activists at the United Nations and beyond; title: State activism and the production of impunity; title: Human rights and the Colombian military's war stories.