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Afrodescendant Resistance to Deracination in Colombia

Massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Fills a gap in the literature addressing the 2002 massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
  2. Beyond Sociology of Forced Migration

    • Aurora Vergara-Figueroa
    Pages 1-26
  3. They Kill Us, Therefore We Exist?

    • Aurora Vergara-Figueroa
    Pages 53-68
  4. Suffering While Black. Resistance Amid Deracination

    • Aurora Vergara-Figueroa
    Pages 69-80
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 91-123

About this book

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. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Social Sciences, Universidad Icesi, Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

    Aurora Vergara-Figueroa

About the author

Aurora Vergara-Figueroa is Assistant Professor and Director of the Afrodiasporic Studies Center (CEAF) at Icesi University, Colombia

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Softcover Book USD 59.99
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