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Intersections of Affect, Memory, and Privilege in Bogota, Colombia

Affected by Conflict

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  • Jun 2024

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Authors:
  1. Hendrikje Grunow

    1. Catholic University of Eichstätt, Eichstätt, Germany

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  • Based on diverse methodologies including ethnographic fieldwork, narrative interviews and media analysis
  • Describes the affective states in class-specific terms with the example of Bogota’s upper middle class
  • Explores the implications of affective encounters in the context of the Colombian conflict

Part of the book series: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice (MPTJ)

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Keywords

  • Upper middle class
  • memory
  • affect
  • Colombia
  • ethnography
  • privilege
  • Colombian conflict
  • post-conflict society
  • Bogota

About this book

​This book explores the intersections of affect, memory and privilege among Bogota’s upper middle class. Combining approaches from memory studies, anthropology, feminist and affect theory, this work is concerned with the implications for the present and potential futures contained in affective encounters. It is structured along four affects describing the social, spatial, historical and political aspects of ‘being affected’ by the Colombian conflict. After showing how the Colombian conflict is rooted in specific affective relationships to land, disappointment and crushed hopes in the context of various peace negotiations are portrayed as the central experiences nurturing a sense of a doubling or re-experiencing of past emotions. Then, a specifically upper-middle class emotional habitus and its implication for the social connections to people more directly affected by the conflict are outlined, and peace as an upper middle-class affect is revealed as a privilege not everyone deserves.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Catholic University of Eichstätt, Eichstätt, Germany

    Hendrikje Grunow

About the author

Hendrikje Grunow is coordinator of the German-Colombian MA program Conflict, Memory and Peace at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. She holds a doctorate from the University of Konstanz and studied Anthropology and Latin-American Studies in Berlin, Bogota, Zurich and Bern. She co-coordinates the Latin-American regional group at the Memory Studies Association.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Intersections of Affect, Memory, and Privilege in Bogota, Colombia

  • Book Subtitle: Affected by Conflict

  • Authors: Hendrikje Grunow

  • Series Title: Memory Politics and Transitional Justice

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50934-6Due: 05 July 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50937-7Due: 05 July 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-50935-3Due: 05 July 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2731-3840

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-3859

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 255

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

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