Family Memory
Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková, Radmila Svarickova Slabakova, Radmila Svaříčková Slabáková, Radmila varícková Slabáková, Radmila ¿va¿í¿ková Slabáková
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Dwellers of Memory
Youth and Violence in Medellin, Colombia
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
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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 has transgressed familiar boundaries and destroyed basic social supports and networks of trust. This volume attempts to map and understand its patterns and flows.The author explores how Medellin's youth locate themselves and make, sense of violence through contradictory and shifting memory practices. The violence has not completely taken over their cultural worlds or their subjectivities. Practices of remembering and forgetting are key methods by which these youth rework their identities and make sense of the impact of violence on their lives. While the experience of violence is rooted in urban space and urban youth, the memory dwellers use a sense of place, oral histories of death, and narratives of fear as survival strategies for inhabiting violent neighborhoods. The book also examines fissures in memory, the contradictory constructions of young people's subjective selves, and practices of gendered violence and terror. All have and continue to pose risks to the historical memory and cultural survival of the residents of Medellin.Dwellers of Memory offers an alternative ethnographic approach to the study of memory and violence, one that calls into question whether the, role of the ethnographer of violence is to be a mere witness of terror, or to oppose it by writing against it. It will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, and students of, ethnography.
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- Utgivningsdatum2006-01-01
- Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
- Vikt630 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieMemory and Narrative
- Antal sidor252
- FörlagTaylor & Francis Inc
- ISBN9780765803146
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