Author : Aurora Vergara-Figueroa
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319597612
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Book Synopsis Afrodescendant Resistance to Deracination in Colombia by : Aurora Vergara-Figueroa
Download or read book Afrodescendant Resistance to Deracination in Colombia written by Aurora Vergara-Figueroa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a socio-historical analysis of the 2002 massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó, Colombia. The author examines how the concepts of forced displacement and migration could be formulas for historical erasure. These concepts are used to name populations, such as the survivors of this massacre, and are limited in their ability to contribute to the demands for reparation of the affected populations. Instead, based on an ethnographic study of the pain and suffering generated in the survivors, the book proposes the concept of deracination as a tool to study land dispossession. It captures both the complex local specificities, the global linkages of this phenomenon and the strategies of resistance used by the people of this community to channel what seems as an impossible mourning.