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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300514403321

Autore

Vergara-Figueroa Aurora

Titolo

Afrodescendant Resistance to Deracination in Colombia : Massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó / / by Aurora Vergara-Figueroa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

9783319597614

3319597612

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXXII, 123 p. 5 illus.)

Collana

Palgrave pivot

Disciplina

320.4

Soggetti

America - Politics and government

Emigration and immigration

Human rights

Ethnology

America - History

American Politics

Human Migration

Human Rights

Ethnography

History of the Americas

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1: Beyond Sociology of Forced Migration -- 2: The Region: Emptied spaces and Geographies of death in Colombia -- 3: They Kill Us, Therefore We Exist? -- 4: Suffering while Black, Resistance amid Displacement -- 5: Final Remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a socio-historical analysis of the 2002 massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó, Colombia. The author examines how the concepts of forced displacement and migration could be formulas for historical erasure. These concepts are used to name populations, such as the survivors of this massacre, and are limited in their ability to contribute to the demands for reparation of the affected populations. Instead, based on an ethnographic study of the pain and suffering



generated in the survivors, the book proposes the concept of deracination as a tool to study land dispossession. It captures both the complex local specificities, the global linkages of this phenomenon and the strategies of resistance used by the people of this community to channel what seems as an impossible mourning. .