Territories of Conflict offers a comprehensive view of the cultural and political landscapes of Colombia through in-depth analyses of citizenship, displacement, local and global cultures, grassroots movements, political activism, human rights, environmentalism, and media production. The volume investigates conflict as a creative force but one that is not devoid of its destructive meaning for Colombia. It is precisely through conflict that the nation's social and cultural fabric is being mapped out, thus resulting in territories -- understood in both a literal and a metaphorical sense -- that paradoxically coexist in discordance. Contributors to this interdisciplinary volumeinclude historians, sociologists, political scientists, musicologists, and environmentalists, as well as literary, media, and cultural studies specialists from the United States, Colombia, and Europe.

CONTRIBUTORS: Maurizio Al, Ingrid Johanna Bolvar Ramrez, Margarita Cullar Barona, Andrea Fanta Castro, Hctor Fernndez L'Hoeste, Joaqun Llorca Franco, David Fernando Garca, Felipe Gmez Gutirrez, lvaro Diego Hro-Olaizola, Stacey Hunt, Camilo Alberto Jimnez Alfonso, Gregory J. Lobo, Tatjana Louis, Felipe Martnez-Pinzn, Mara Ospina, Kate Paarlberg-Kvam, Diana Pardo Pedraza, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky, Chloe Rutter-Jensen, Claudia Salamanca Snchez, Sven Schuster, Silvia Serrano,

Andrea Fanta Castro is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Florida International University; Alejandro Herrero-OIaizola is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Spanish & Latin American Studies at the University of Michigan; and Chloe Rutter-Jensen is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogot, Colombia.