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Counting the dead : the culture and politics of human rights activism in Colombia
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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 importan...
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 context of broader cultural and political debates.
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- Creator
- Winifred Tate
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xv, 379 pages) : map
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- ISBNs
- 9781435611443, 9780520941175, 0520252837, 9786612360374, 1433708973, 0520941179, 9781433708978, 9780520252820, 1435611446, 0520252829, 9780520252837, 128236037X, 9781282360372
- OCLC
- ocn476111565, ocn182574561
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-369) and index.
- 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