Counting the Dead

Winifred Tate is currently a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studes at Brown University and will become an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Colby College in September 2008.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Map of Colombia Introduction 1. Colombia: Mapping the Eternal Crisis 2. Solidarity with Our Class Brothers: The First Wave of Human Rights Activism in Colombia 3. The Production of Human Rights Knowledge and the Practice of Politics 4. The Emotional Politics of Activism in the 1990s 5. The Global Imaginaries of Colombian Activists at the United Nations and Beyond 6. State Activism and the Production of Impunity 7. Human Rights and the Colombian Military's War Stories Conclusion: The Politics of Human Rights Knowledge Notes Selected Bibliography Index

"Contributes significantly to our understanding of how activist institutional culture and identity evolves in a context where traditional labor and religious activists increasingly engage with and become more deeply enmeshed in the larger global activist community." -- Stephen Ropp Hispanic American Historical Review (Hahr) "A fascinating study of how and why the idea of human rights has gained such currency in Colombian society." -- William Aviles Latin American Perspectives: A Journal On Capitalism & Socialism