Counting the dead : the culture and politics of human rights activism in Colombia /

Drawing from the life stories of high-profile activists, interviews with military officials, and research at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, this work underscores the importance of analyzing and understanding human rights discourses, methodologies, and institutions within the c...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tate, Winifred, 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007.
Series:California series in public anthropology ; 18.
Subjects:
Since 1970
Human rights advocacy > Colombia.
Political persecution > Colombia.
Défense des droits de l'homme > Colombie.
Répression politique > Colombie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Human rights advocacy.
Political persecution.
Politics and government.
Social conditions.
Colombia > Politics and government > 1974-
Colombia > Social conditions > 1970-
Colombie > Conditions sociales > 1970-
Colombia.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Colombia : mapping the eternal crisis
  • Solidarity with our class brothers : the first wave of Colombian human rights activism
  • The production of human rights knowledge and the practice of politics
  • The emotional politics of activism in the 1990s
  • The global imaginaries of Colombian activists at the United Nations and beyond
  • State activism and the production of impunity
  • Human rights and the Colombian military's war stories.

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