LEADER 02638nam 22004093a 450 001 9910645963703321 005 20230621140222.0 010 $a1-4780-9075-8 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.1215/9780822374701 035 $a(CKB)5460000000185180 035 $a(ScCtBLL)2a6d8c45-5794-4545-be1e-30695a4dd89b 035 $a(EXLCZ)995460000000185180 100 $a20211214i20162021 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auru|||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 02$aA Century of Violence in a Red City $ePopular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia /$fLesley Gill 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cDuke University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (302 p.) 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory / Latin America / South America$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial Science / Sociology / Urban$2bisacsh 606 $aHistory 615 7$aSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social 615 7$aHistory / Latin America / South America 615 7$aSocial Science / Sociology / Urban 615 0$aHistory 700 $aGill$b Lesley$0691055 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910645963703321 996 $aA century of violence in a red city$92176546 997 $aUNINA