Resisting Violence Emotional Communities in Latin America /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Macleod, Morna (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), De Marinis, Natalia (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Latin America-Politics and government.; Violence.; Crime.; Terrorism.; Political violence.; Latin American Politics.; Violence and Crime.; Terrorism and Political Violence.

This book focuses on emotional engagement in academic research with victims of violence and testimonial documentation in Latin America. It examines the recent history of resistance to violence and political repression in Latin America, highlighting the role of emotions in the political sphere. The a...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Resisting Violence: Emotional Communities in Latin America
• 2. Violence, Emotional Communities, and Political Action in Colombia
• 3. Testimony, Social Memory, and Strategic Emotional/Political Communities in Elena Poniatowska's Crónicas
• 4. Emotional Histories: A Historiography of Resistances in Chalatenango, El Salvador
• 5. Protesting Against Torture in Pinochet's Chile: Movimiento Contra la Tortura Sebastián Acevedo
• 6. Emotions, Experiences, and Communities: The Return of the Guatemalan Refugees
• 7. Political-Affective Intersections: Testimonial Traces Among Forcibly Displaced Indigenous People of Oaxaca, Mexico
• 8. Affective Contestations: Engaging Emotion Through the Sepur Zarco Trial
• 9. Women Defending Women: Memories of Women Day Laborers and Emotional Communities.