Gill Lesley Gill

Century of Violence in a Red City (eBook, PDF)

Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374701
• Artikelnr.: 54787930

Autorenporträt

Lesley Gill is Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University and the author of The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas, also published by Duke University Press.  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Acronyms  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction  1
1. Black Gold, Militant Labor  29
2. Cold War Crucible  61
3. Terror and Impunity  95
4. Unraveling  123
5. Fragmented Sovereignty  152
6. Narrowing Political Options and Human Rights  183
7. The Aftermath of Counterinsurgency  216
Conclusion  237
Notes  249
References  263
Index  275