1st Edition
Dwellers of Memory Youth and Violence in Medellin, Colombia
By Pilar Riano-Alcala
Copyright 2006
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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Dwellers of Memory is an ethnographic study of how urban youth in Colombia came to be at the intersection of multiple forms of political, drug-related, and territorial violence in a country undergoing forty years of internal armed conflict. It examines the ways in which youth in the city of Medellin reconfigure their lives and, cultural worlds in the face of widespread violence. This violence... Read more
List of Maps and Images Prologue Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Colombia at the Crossroads Youth's Forgettings and the Politics of Memory Bridges of Memory The Circulation of Memories and the Traffic of Violence An Anthropology of Remembering and Forgetting Dwellers of Memory: The Youth in this BookChapter 1 Local Histories in a National Light Clouds of Smoke: The Thirties A War of Colors and Horrors: The Fifties Red Lights in the Barrio: The Tolerant Years Languages of Concealment: The Sixties Travels and Travellers: The Seventies A Troubling Image of Youth: The 1980s and 1990s Busy Streets Local Wars Pigs for Peace Por que, a pesar de tanta mierda, este barrio es poder?Chapter 2 Remembering Place: Making and Sensing Places Place-Making: Memory Landscapes and Landmarks A Walkabout The Memory of Things Seen Soundscaping Dwelling Place-Naming Changing Names, Changing Dynamics Typologies of Social Space and Spatial Practices Home Far Away From Home Imagining and Border Crossing Communities of Memory in PlaceChapter 3 The Living Memories of Death: Oral Histories of Death and the Dead I see his blood that falls like seed: Narratives of the Dead How do you speak to the disappeared? Chronologies of Death and Dead-Listings Events and Their Meaning: Giving Death a Place An Embodied Place for Death Subjects of Death: MartyrsChapter 4 Ghosts, Possessed Bodies and Warriors: Narratives of Fear and Gendered Violence Ghostly Stories and Social Regulations This happened to me, I have lived this: Witnesses and Possessed Spirits Warrior Bodies, Women and Terror Fissures in the Social Fabric and Social TensionsChapter 5 A Generational Forgetting? Territorial Otherness Paths of Distrust and Vengeance Witnessing, Suffering and Memory Epilogue Bibliography Index
Biography
Pilar Riano-Alcala
