Histories of Perplexity

Lina Britto is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. She is the author of Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia’s First Drug Paradise.A. Ricardo López-Pedreros is Professor of History at Western Washington University. He has been a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor at University College London. He is the author of Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Class in Colombia.

• Preface: Colombia RevisitedLina Britto and A. Ricardo López-PedrerosIntroduction: Histories of PerplexityLina Britto and A. Ricardo López-PedrerosPart 1: Identifying Multiculturalism1. 1. A Conversation with an Afrodiasporic Humanist: Manuel Zapata Olivella in His Own WordsWilliam Mina2. 2. Black Upward Mobility, Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Social Whitening in ColombiaMara Viveros Vigoya3. 3. From Native to Raizal: Indigeneity and Anglophone Afro-Caribbean Heritage of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa CatalinaSharika D. Crawford 4. 4. Campesino: A Contested Identity, a Vibrant Subjectivity in ColombiaDiana Bocarejo and Carlos del Cairo Part 2: Surveying the Territorial State5. 5. A Country of Forests: Territorial State Building in ColombiaClaudia Leal6. Collective Land Titling and Neoliberalism in the Colombian Pacific RegionMarta Isabel Domínguez7. From Carbon Extraction to Blue and Green Extractivism: Demands of Radical Socio-Environmental Transformations in the Guajira Astrid UlloaPart 3: Unpacking Drug Trafficking8. 8. Diplomacy, Drug Trafficking, and Political Repression: César Gaviria’s Administration in Colombia, 1990-1994Eduardo Sáenz Rovner9. 9. Narcotrafficking, Immigration, and Salsa Music: The Cali-New York ConnectionAlejandro Ulloa Sanmiguel10. MONA®CO: Conversations on Narco-Phenomena and Contemporary Art in Colombia Santiago Rueda and Harold OrtizPart 4: Watching the Media1111. The Accidental Persona: The Media and Pablo EscobarCatalina Uribe Rincón1212. The Moral Vision and Moral Performance of Photojournalist Jesús Abad ColoradoAlexander L. Fattal1313. Community Radio Stations and the Construction of Modern Indigeneity in CaucaDiego Cortés1414. Social Media and the Musical Nation: Hegemonic Cooptation and the Making of a National RepertoireHéctor Fernández L’HoestePart 5: Revisiting the Armed Conflict1515. Gendered Activism and Elite Formation on the Colombian Frontier: Lessons from the Life of Fátima MurielWinifred Tate1616. Coercive Brokerage: The Rise and Fall of Colombian Paramilitary Commander Hernán Giraldo, 1976-2006Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín1717. The Conflicts of Coca: Women’s Struggles for Economic Autonomy in Coca-Growing RegionsEstefanía CiroPart 6: Laboring with Memory1818. Fluctuations and Paradoxes in Colombia’s Long Cycle of Historical Memory, 2005-2021María Emma Wills Obregón1919. Rendering the Unheard-of Believable: On Fragmentos by Doris Salcedo and Duelos by Clemencia EcheverriMaría del Rosario Acosta López2020. “We gave them names:” Exhumations, Peace Agreement and Social Reparation in Bojayá, ChocóPilar Riaño Alcalá in collaboration with José de la Cruz Valencia, Natalia Quiceno, and Camila Orjuela