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 Revisited

Lina Britto and A. Ricardo López-Pedreros

Introduction: Histories of Perplexity

Lina Britto and A. Ricardo López-Pedreros

Part 1: Identifying Multiculturalism

1. 1. A Conversation with an Afrodiasporic Humanist: Manuel Zapata Olivella in His Own Words

William Mina

2. 2. Black Upward Mobility, Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Social Whitening in Colombia

Mara Viveros Vigoya

3. 3. From Native to Raizal: Indigeneity and Anglophone Afro-Caribbean Heritage of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina

Sharika D. Crawford

4. 4. Campesino: A Contested Identity, a Vibrant Subjectivity in Colombia

Diana Bocarejo and Carlos del Cairo

Part 2: Surveying the Territorial State

5. 5. A Country of Forests: Territorial State Building in Colombia

Claudia Leal

6. Collective Land Titling and Neoliberalism in the Colombian Pacific Region

Marta Isabel Domínguez

7. From Carbon Extraction to Blue and Green Extractivism: Demands of Radical Socio-Environmental Transformations in the Guajira

Astrid Ulloa

Part 3: Unpacking Drug Trafficking

8. 8. Diplomacy, Drug Trafficking, and Political Repression: César Gaviria’s Administration in Colombia, 1990-1994

Eduardo Sáenz Rovner

9. 9. Narcotrafficking, Immigration, and Salsa Music: The Cali-New York Connection

Alejandro Ulloa Sanmiguel

10. MONA®CO: Conversations on Narco-Phenomena and Contemporary Art in Colombia Santiago Rueda and Harold Ortiz

Part 4: Watching the Media

1111. The Accidental Persona: The Media and Pablo Escobar

Catalina Uribe Rincón

1212. The Moral Vision and Moral Performance of Photojournalist Jesús Abad Colorado

Alexander L. Fattal

1313. Community Radio Stations and the Construction of Modern Indigeneity in Cauca

Diego Cortés

1414. Social Media and the Musical Nation: Hegemonic Cooptation and the Making of a National Repertoire

Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste

Part 5: Revisiting the Armed Conflict

1515. Gendered Activism and Elite Formation on the Colombian Frontier: Lessons from the Life of Fátima Muriel

Winifred Tate

1616. Coercive Brokerage: The Rise and Fall of Colombian Paramilitary Commander Hernán Giraldo, 1976-2006

Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín

1717. The Conflicts of Coca: Women’s Struggles for Economic Autonomy in Coca-Growing Regions

Estefanía Ciro

Part 6: Laboring with Memory

1818. Fluctuations and Paradoxes in Colombia’s Long Cycle of Historical Memory, 2005-2021

María Emma Wills Obregón

1919. Rendering the Unheard-of Believable: On Fragmentos by Doris Salcedo and Duelos by Clemencia Echeverri

María del Rosario Acosta López

2020. “We gave them names:” Exhumations, Peace Agreement and Social Reparation in Bojayá, Chocó

Pilar Riaño Alcalá in collaboration with José de la Cruz Valencia, Natalia Quiceno, and Camila Orjuela