Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America

GABRIELA POLIT Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, USA.   MARIA HELENA RUEDA Assistant Professor at Smith College, USA.

"This book addresses some of the most important topics on violence throughout the Americas. It constitutes a good reader for students to learn what violence has brought to the continent and to decide what are the networks of meaning violence relates to." - Prof. Ileana Rodriguez, Humanities Distinguished Professor, The Ohio State University

• Against Violence and Oblivion: The Case of Colombia's Disappeared; M.V.Uribe Txitzi'n for the Poxnai: Indigenous Women's Discourses on Revolutionary Combat; A.Arias Facing Unseen Violence: Ex-combatants Painting the War in Colombia; M.H.Rueda Considerations on Violence, the Global South, and an Aesthetics of Sobriety; H.Herlinghaus Urban Violence and the Politics of Representation in Recent Brazilian Film; M.Peixoto Ciudad Juarez, Femicide, and the State; S.Tabuenca Chronicles of Everyday Life in Culiacan; G.Polit Ricardo Wiesse's Cantutas; V.Vich The Sounds of Violence: Critical Perspectives from Contemporary Brazil; S.Araújo        (In)visible Connections and the Makings of Collective Violence; J.Auyero & M.Mahler Fuerte Apache; C.Alarcón