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A Century of Violence in a Red City : Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia / / Lesley Gill



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Autore: Gill Lesley Visualizza persona
Titolo: A Century of Violence in a Red City : Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia / / Lesley Gill Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: [s.l.] : , : Duke University Press, , 2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
Soggetto topico: Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
History / Latin America / South America
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
History
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Titolo autorizzato: A century of violence in a red city  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4780-9075-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910645963703321
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