Joachim Michael – författare

This volume shifts the focus from violence to peace studies in Latin America and sheds light on how social groups and individuals resist to violence and strive to create peaceful or at least less violent conditions of conviviality. Drawing on social sciences, history, and anthropology, but also on cultural, literary, and film studies, the book examines the role of social mobilizations, civic activism, and cultural/artistic initiatives as responses to the crisis of violence, which the state is unable or unwilling to address. In this sense, it debates what a culture of peace could mean in Latin America.

Divided into four chapters, Chapter 1 discusses peace from an epistemological and philosophical perspective. In Chapter 2, the authors discuss the contours of a culture of peace with a particular focus on literary and cinematic narratives. Chapter 3 analyses the public debate about the role of the state in peace processes in the case of Costa Rica/Central America. Chapter 4 examines the importance of civil society activities in peace processes.

Peace in Latin America is written for a wide and diverse audience that includes researchers, professors, specialists, students, civil society activists, and political actors not only from Latin America but from all over the world.

This volume shifts the focus from violence to peace studies in Latin America and sheds light on how social groups and individuals resist to violence and strive to create peaceful or at least less violent conditions of conviviality. Drawing on social sciences, history, and anthropology, but also on cultural, literary, and film studies, the book examines the role of social mobilizations, civic activism, and cultural/artistic initiatives as responses to the crisis of violence, which the state is unable or unwilling to address. In this sense, it debates what a culture of peace could mean in Latin America.

Divided into four chapters, Chapter 1 discusses peace from an epistemological and philosophical perspective. In Chapter 2, the authors discuss the contours of a culture of peace with a particular focus on literary and cinematic narratives. Chapter 3 analyses the public debate about the role of the state in peace processes in the case of Costa Rica/Central America. Chapter 4 examines the importance of civil society activities in peace processes.

Peace in Latin America is written for a wide and diverse audience that includes researchers, professors, specialists, students, civil society activists, and political actors not only from Latin America but from all over the world.

Gegenstand des vorliegenden Bandes ist die Untersuchung der mannigfaltigen Beziehungen Brasiliens zu den hispanoamerikanischen Nachbar-Ländern. Der lateinamerikanische Kontext, in den Brasilien eingebettet ist, wird durch ein verschiedenartiges Netz bi- und multilateraler Beziehungen bestimmt, welches bisher in der Forschung wenig Beachtung gefunden hat. Der Band versteht sich als Beitrag zur Reflexion der interkulturellen Dynamik dieser Beziehungen. Die Interdisziplinarität der Beiträge ist weitgespannt. Sie umfaßt neben Ansätzen aus dem Bereich der Literatur- und Filmwissenschaft, der Philosophie, den Sozial- und Politikwissenschaften auch solche aus dem Bereich der Anthropologie, der Geschichte und der Theologie.