Afrodescendant Resistance to Deracination in Colombia: Massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó

by Aurora Vergara-Figueroa

Overview

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. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319597614
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	10/26/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	123
File size:	862 KB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

1: Beyond Sociology of Forced Migration.- 2: The Region: Emptied spaces and Geographies of death in Colombia.- 3: They Kill Us, Therefore We Exist?.- 4: Suffering while Black, Resistance amid Displacement.- 5: Final Remarks.