Mapping the Country of Regions: The Chorographic Commission of Nineteenth-Century Colombia, Nancy P. Appelbaum
Автор: Ochoa Gautier Ana Mar Название: Aurality: Knowledge and Listening in Nineteenth-Century Colombia ISBN: 0822357364 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822357360 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 14758.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In this audacious book, Ana María Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics of life. Drawing primarily from nineteenth-century Colombian sources, Ochoa Gautier locates sounds produced by different living entities at the juncture of the human and nonhuman. Her "acoustically tuned" analysis of a wide array of texts reveals multiple debates on the nature of the aural. These discussions were central to a politics of the voice harnessed in the service of the production of different notions of personhood and belonging. In Ochoa Gautier's groundbreaking work, Latin America and the Caribbean emerge as a historical site where the politics of life and the politics of expression inextricably entangle the musical and the linguistic, knowledge and the sensorial.
Описание: The nineteenth century was an era of breathtakingly ambitious geographic expeditions across the Americas. The seminal Chorographic Commission of Colombia, which began in 1850 and lasted about a decade, was one of Latin America's most extensive. The commission's mandate was to define and map the young republic and its resources with an eye toward modernization. In this history of the commission, Nancy Appelbaum focuses on the geographers' fieldwork practices and visual production as the men traversed the mountains, savannahs, and forests of more than thirty provinces in order to delineate the country's territorial and racial composition. Their assumptions and methods, Appelbaum argues, contributed to a long-lasting national imaginary.What jumps out of the commission's array of reports, maps, sketches, and paintings is a portentous tension between the marked differences that appeared before the eyes of the geographers in the field and the visions of sameness to which they aspired. The commissioners and their patrons believed that a prosperous republic required a unified and racially homogeneous population, but the commission's maps and images paradoxically emphasized diversity and helped create a ""country of regions."" By privileging the whiter inhabitants of the cool Andean highlands over those of the boiling tropical lowlands, the commission left a lasting but problematic legacy for today's Colombians.
In this audacious book, Ana María Ochoa Gautier explores how listening has been central to the production of notions of language, music, voice, and sound that determine the politics of life. Drawing primarily from nineteenth-century Colombian sources, Ochoa Gautier locates sounds produced by different living entities at the juncture of the human and nonhuman. Her "acoustically tuned" analysis of a wide array of texts reveals multiple debates on the nature of the aural. These discussions were central to a politics of the voice harnessed in the service of the production of different notions of personhood and belonging. In Ochoa Gautier's groundbreaking work, Latin America and the Caribbean emerge as a historical site where the politics of life and the politics of expression inextricably entangle the musical and the linguistic, knowledge and the sensorial.
In A Century of Violence in a Red City Lesley Gill provides insights into broad trends of global capitalist development, class disenfranchisement and dispossession, and the decline of progressive politics. Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions, neighborhood organizations, and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, from their origins in the 1920s to their effective activism for agrarian reforms, labor rights, and social programs in the 1960s and 1970s. Like much of Colombia, Barrancabermeja came to be dominated by alliances of right-wing politicians, drug traffickers, foreign corporations, and paramilitary groups. These alliances reshaped the geography of power and gave rise to a pernicious form of armed neoliberalism. Their violent incursion into Barrancabermeja's civil society beginning in the 1980s decimated the city's social networks, destabilized life for its residents, and destroyed its working-class organizations. As a result, community leaders are now left clinging to the toothless discourse of human rights, which cannot effectively challenge the status quo. In this stark book, Gill captures the grim reality and precarious future of Barrancabermeja and other places ravaged by neoliberalism and violence.
Автор: Gaviria Alejandro, Mejia Daniel, Weiskopf Jimmy Название: Anti-Drug Policies in Colombia: Successes, Failures, and Wrong Turns ISBN: 0826520715 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826520715 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 10672.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Forty years after the declaration of the ""war on drugs"" by President Nixon, the debate on the effectiveness and costs of the ban is red-hot. Several former Latin American presidents and leading intellectuals from around the world have drawn attention to the ineffectiveness and adverse consequences of prohibitionism. This book thoroughly analyzes the drug policies of one of the main protagonists in this war.The book covers many topics: the economics of drug production, the policies to reduce consumption and decrease supply during the Plan Colombia, the effects of the drug problem on Colombia's international relations, the prevention of money laundering, the connection between drug trafficking and paramilitary politics, and strategies against organized crime. Beyond the diversity in topics, there is a common thread running through all the chapters: the need to analyze objectively what works and what does not, based on empirical evidence. Presented here for the first time to an English-speaking audience, this book is a contribution to a debate that urgently needs to transcend ideology and preconceived opinions.
Описание: A collective biography of the veterans of the battle of El Santuario (1829), this book uses the untold stories of ordinary lives to examine the history of the imperial conflicts that shaped politics and society in Colombia and Venezuela after independence from colonial rule.
Автор: Eduardo Posada-Carb? Название: Colombia ISBN: 0333715535 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333715536 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 24456.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines the process of political and social reform that Colombia has experienced in the past decade. This story offers a Colombian dimension to the increasing interest in processes of state reform elsewhere.
Описание: Citizens` media countering armed conflict and rebuilding community in Colombia
Автор: Kastre Michael F. Название: Walking in the Clouds - Colombia Through the Eyes of a Gringo ISBN: 0990375404 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780990375401 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3093.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Stephen J. Randall Название: Colombia and the United States: Hegemony and Interdependence ISBN: 0820352187 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820352183 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 11920.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Strategically located at the gateway to the South American continent, Colombia has long been a key player in shaping the US`s involvement with its Latin American neighbours. In this book Stephen J. Randall examines the course of US-Colombian relations over two centuries, taking into account the broad spectrum of political, social, cultural, and economic contacts that have figured in the interaction.
Автор: Eduardo Posada-Carb? Название: Colombia ISBN: 1349260525 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349260522 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 23058.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines the process of political and social reform that Colombia has experienced in the past decade. This story offers a Colombian dimension to the increasing interest in processes of state reform elsewhere.
Автор: Dier Andrew Название: Moon Colombia ISBN: 1631213571 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781631213571 Издательство: Little Brown Рейтинг: Цена: 2427.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Colombia resident Andrew Dier shares his insider tips and secrets on the best the country has to offer
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