Territories of Conflict

<p>Territories of Conflict offers a comprehensive view of the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through in-depth analyses of citizenship displacement local and global cultures grassroots movements political activism human rights environmentalism and media production. The volume investigates conflict as a creative force but one that is not devoid of its destructive meaning for Colombia. It is precisely through conflict that the nation's social and cultural fabric is being mapped out thus resulting in territories -- understood in both a literal and a metaphorical sense -- that paradoxically coexist in discordance. Contributors to this interdisciplinary volume include historians sociologists political scientists musicologists and environmentalists as well as literary media and cultural studies specialists from the United States Colombia and Europe. CONTRIBUTORS: Maurizio Ali Ingrid Johanna Bolivar Ramirez Margarita Cuellar Barona Andrea Fanta Castro Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste Joaquin Llorca Franco David Fernando Garcia Felipe Gomez Gutierrez Alvaro Diego Herrera Arango Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola Stacey Hunt Camilo Alberto Jimenez Alfonso Gregory J. Lobo Tatjana Louis Felipe Martinez-Pinzon Maria Ospina Kate Paarlberg-Kvam Diana Pardo Pedraza Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky Chloe Rutter-Jensen Claudia Salamanca Sanchez Sven Schuster Silvia Serrano Andrea Fanta Castro is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Florida International University; Alejandro Herrero-OIaizola is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies at the University of Michigan; and Chloe Rutter-Jensen is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the Universidad de los Andes Bogota Colombia.</p>