Fields of Fire - Emancipation and Resistance in Colombia

Fields of Fire: Emancipation and Resistance in Colombia identifies the concept of the emancipatory network as a coordination of loose, discrete, and differentiated actors to explain how activists successfully practice high-risk activism. Illustrating that previous studies on high-risk activism come to contradictory conclusions, Louis Edgar Esparza argues that networks rather than individual characteristics are associated with mobilization. The book features unique ethnographic material of a Colombian sugarcane worker strike and includes interviews with workers and human rights activists in Valle del Cauca and Bogotá that reveal different forms of knowledge that activists bring to a social movement. It argues that the combination of these different forms of knowledge bolsters the movement's resiliency in the face of repression. The book provides a counterfactual chapter, illustrating a lack of mobilization where the emancipatory network is absent. Ultimately, it integrates English and Spanish-language social movement literatures, revealing important theoretical insights, and is detailed with data from various sources to outline the state context of social movement action.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books-Fortress Academic
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2023
Authors:	Louis Edgar Esparza
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Pages:	220
ISBN-13:	978-1-66692-702-3
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-66692-702-3
Barcode:	9781666927023

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