[Commlist] New book: The Persistence of Violence

I hope some of you may be interested in my new book, /The Persistence of 
Violence: Colombian Popular Culture/ with Rutgers UP

Colombia’s headline story, about the peace process with /guerrilla/ and 
its attendant controversies, does not consider the fundamental 
contradiction of a nation that spans generosity and violence, warmth and 
hatred—products of its particular pattern of invasion, dispossession, 
and enslavement. /The Persistence of Violence/ aims to fill that gap in 
understanding. Colombia is a place that is two countries in one—the 
ideal and the real—summed up in the idiomatic expression, not unique to 
Colombia, but particularly popular there, “Hecha la ley, hecha la 
trampa” (When you pass a law, you create a loophole). Less cynically, 
and more poetically, the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez deemed 
Colombians capable of both the most noble acts and the most abject ones, 
in a world where it seems anyone might do anything, from the beautiful 
to the horrendous. /The Persistence of Violence/ draws on those 
contradictions and paradoxes to look at how violence—and resistance to 
it—characterize Colombian popular culture, from football to soap opera 
to journalism to tourism to the environment. My co-authors of various 
chapters are Alfredo Sabbagh Fajardo, Olga Lucia Sorzano, Anamaria 
Tamayo Duque, Marta Milena Barrios, and Jesús Arroyave Cabrera.

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-persistence-of-violence/9781978817517

TOBY MILLER is Stuart Hall Professor of Cultural Studies, Universidad 
Autónoma de México—Cuajimalpa. The author and editor of over forty 
books, his most recent volumes are El trabajo cultural, Greenwashing 
Culture, Greenwashing Sport, and The Routledge Handbook of Global 
Cultural Policy.

"Both eloquent and straightforward, Toby Miller artfully contextualizes 
violence in the culture of Colombia. The Persistence of Violence brings 
together the study of popular culture, political economy, and social 
movement issues in ways that offer a fresh view to scholarship of the 
region."

--George Yúdice, author of The Expediency of Culture

"Toby Miller tackles the considerable task of analyzing the roots of 
violence in Colombia with acumen, attention to empirical research, and 
great sensibility to listen to Colombian actors themselves. The 
Persistence of Violence will remain an essential reference to Cultural 
Studies approaches to violence in Colombia and will be read with 
interest by the general public, students, and specialists alike."


--Idelber Avelar, author of Transculturación en suspenso: Los orígenes 
de los cánones narrativos colombianos


Contents

List of Figures 

Introduction: The Persistence of Violence
Chapter One: The Absence and Presence of State Militarism: Violence, 
Football, Narcos (with Alfredo Sabbagh Fajardo)
Chapter Two: Industry Policy and Sex Tourism Meet the Case of the 
Destroyed Plaque (with Olga Lucia Sorzano and Anamaria Tamayo Duque)
Chapter Three: ‘I Myself Had to Remain Silent When They Threatened My 
Children’: Colombian Journalists and Self-Censorship Meet Prime-Time 
Narcos (with Marta Milena Barrios and Jesús Arroyave Cabrera)
Chapter Four: Green Passion Afloat: The Magdalena River (with Marta 
Milena Barrios)
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Bibliography

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