RT Book
T1 The persistence of violence: Colombian popular culture
A1 Miller, Toby 1958-
LA English
PP New Brunswick Camden, New Jersey Newark, New Jersey London
PB Rutgers University Press
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1736007491
AB Introduction: The Persistence of Violence -- 1. The Absence and Presence of State Militarism : Violence, Football, Narcos / with Alfredo Sabbagh Fajardo -- 2. Industry Policy and Sex Tourism Meet the Case of the Destroyed Plaque / with Olga Lucia Sorzano and Anamaria Tamayo-Duque -- 3. "I Myself Had to Remain Silent When They Threatened My Children" : Colombian Journalists Meet Prime-Time Narcos / with Marta Milena Barrios and Jesús Arroyave -- 4. Green Passion Afloat: The Magdalena River / with Marta Milena Barrios -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Authors.
AB "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"--Page 4 of cover
NO Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-216) and index
CN HN310.Z9
SN 1978817517
SN 9781978817517
SN 9781978817524
SN 1978817525
K1 Violence : Colombia
K1 Violence in popular culture : Colombia
K1 Popular Culture : Colombia
K1 Volkskultur
K1 Politik
K1 Ökonomie : Begriff
K1 Gewalt
K1 Violence
K1 Violence in popular culture
K1 Colombia : Civilization : 21st century
K1 Colombia : Social conditions
K1 Kolumbien
K1 Colombia