Fields of Fire
Emancipation and Resistance in Colombia
Abstract
Fields of Fire: Emancipation and Resistance in Colombia identifies the concept of the emancipatory network as a coordination of loose, discrete, and differentiated actors to explain how activists successfully practice high-risk activism. Illustrating that previous studies on high-risk activism come to contradictory conclusions, Fields of Fire argues that networks rather than individual characteristics are associated with mobilization. This book features unique ethnographic material of a Colombian sugarcane worker strike, interviews with workers and human rights activists in Valle del Cauca and Bogotá reveal different forms of knowledge that activists bring to a social movement. Esparza argues that the combination of these different forms of knowledge bolsters the movement’s resiliency in the face of repression.
Schlagworte
Colombia Ethnography Latin America Postcolonialism Social Movements Strike- i–xii Preface i–xii
- 1–30 Introduction 1–30
- 31–46 Chapter 1: Risk 31–46
- 105–124 Chapter 4: Leadership 105–124
- 125–154 Chapter 5: Bogotá 125–154
- 155–162 Conclusion 155–162
- 163–164 Appendix A: Interviews 163–164
- 165–188 References 165–188
- 189–196 Index 189–196