Resisting Violence

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Resisting Violence: Emotional Communities in Latin America

   • Natalia De Marinis, Morna Macleod

   Pages 1-22

3. Violence, Emotional Communities, and Political Action in Colombia

   • Myriam Jimeno, Daniel Varela, Angela Castillo

   Pages 23-52

4. Testimony, Social Memory, and Strategic Emotional/Political Communities in Elena Poniatowska’s Crónicas

   • Lynn Stephen

   Pages 53-76

5. Emotional Histories: A Historiography of Resistances in Chalatenango, El Salvador

   • Jenny Pearce

   Pages 77-97

6. Protesting Against Torture in Pinochet’s Chile: Movimiento Contra la Tortura Sebastián Acevedo

   • Morna Macleod

   Pages 99-121

7. Emotions, Experiences, and Communities: The Return of the Guatemalan Refugees

   • Angela Ixkic Bastian Duarte

   Pages 123-141

8. Political-Affective Intersections: Testimonial Traces Among Forcibly Displaced Indigenous People of Oaxaca, Mexico

   • Natalia De Marinis

   Pages 143-161

9. Affective Contestations: Engaging Emotion Through the Sepur Zarco Trial

   • Alison Crosby, M. Brinton Lykes, Fabienne Doiron

   Pages 163-185

10. Women Defending Women: Memories of Women Day Laborers and Emotional Communities

    • Gisela Espinosa Damián

    Pages 187-210

11. Back Matter

    Pages 211-225

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This book focuses on emotional engagement in academic research with victims of violence and testimonial documentation in Latin America. It examines the recent history of resistance to violence and political repression in Latin America, highlighting the role of emotions in the political sphere. The authors analyse the role of researchers committed to social change and question the mandate of distance and neutrality in academic research in contexts of extreme violence. They use case studies of social resistance to political violence in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia and Chile.

• Emotion
• Latin America
• Resisting violence
• Victims of violence
• Emotional engagement
• Emotions in politics
• social resistance
• cultural vioence
• drug-trafficking
• organised crimw
• Mexico
• Guatemala
• El Salvador
• Nicaragua
• Colombia
• Chile
• Emotional communities
• latin american politics
• violence and crime

• Autonomous Morelos State University, Morelos, Mexico

  Morna Macleod

• Centre for Research and Postgraduate Studies in Social Anthropology, Mexico

  Natalia De Marinis

Morna Macleod is Professor at the Autonomous Morelos State University, Mexico. Her current research interests include the continuum of violence, intersectional analysis, social movements, emotions, memory and testimony. 

Natalia De Marinis is Research Professor at CIESAS, Mexico. She has worked with indigenous women since 2007 with collaborative projects on memories and the production of audiovisuals materials. 

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