ABSTRACT
By combining chronological coverage, analytical breadth, and interdisciplinary approaches, these two volumes—Histories of Solitude and Histories of Perplexity—study the histories of Colombia over the past two centuries as illustrations of the histories of democracy across the Americas.
The volumes bring together over 40 scholars based in Colombia, the United States, England, and Canada working in various disciplines to discuss how a country that has been consistently presented as a rarity in Latin America provides critical examples to re-examine major historical problems: republicanism and liberalism; export economies and agrarian modernization; populism and cultural politics of state formation; revolutionary and counterinsurgent Cold War violence; neoliberal reforms and urban development; popular mobilization and counterhegemonic public spheres; political ecologies and environmental struggles; and labors of memory and the challenge of reconciliation. Contributors are sensitive to questions of subjectivity and discourse, observant of ethnographic details and micro-politics, and attuned to macro-perspectives such as transnational and global histories.
These volumes offer fresh perspectives on Colombia and will be of great value to those interested in Latin American and Caribbean history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|85 pages
Identifying Multiculturalism
chapter 1|21 pages
A Conversation with an Afrodiasporic Humanist
chapter 3|19 pages
From Native to Raizal
part 2|60 pages
Surveying the Territorial State
chapter 7|19 pages
From Carbon Extraction to Blue and Green Extractivism
part 3|60 pages
Unpacking Drug Trafficking
chapter 8|16 pages
Diplomacy, Drug Trafficking, and Political Repression
part 4|84 pages
Watching the Media
chapter 14|19 pages
Social Media and the Musical Nation
part 5|64 pages
Revisiting the Armed Conflict
chapter 15|18 pages
Gendered Activism and Elite Formation on the Colombian Frontier
chapter 16|20 pages
Coercive Brokerage
chapter 17|24 pages
The Conflicts of Coca
part 6|67 pages
Laboring with Memory