Territories of Contestation in Medellín: Destierro, Memory, the Youth, and the State

Author

Joan C. Lopez, The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkFollow

Date of Degree

9-2018

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

M.A.

Program

Liberal Studies

Advisor

Victoria Sanford

Subject Categories

Latin American History | Political History

Keywords

Political Violence, Forced Displacement, Historical Memory, Colombia, Latin America, History

Abstract

This thesis is partly a study of the social and political territories that are generated by the displaced as responses to the warfare tactic of el destierro (displacement); and it is also an exploration of how the state operates at the intersection between its imagined centers and its margins. This thesis attempts to look at the state from its imagined margins and to explore how displacement, the regulation of the movement of specific bodies within and across specifically defined regions of Colombia, has been a fundamental practice for, and not against, the formation of the Colombian “state” as we see it today.

Recommended Citation

Lopez, Joan C., "Territories of Contestation in Medellín: Destierro, Memory, the Youth, and the State" (2018). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2927