Human Rights in Colombian Literature and Cultural Production

<p>This volume explores how Colombian novelists artists performers activists musicians and others seek to enact—to perform to stage to represent—human rights situations that are otherwise enacted discursively that is made public or official in juridical and political realms in which justice often remains an illusory or promised future. </p><p>In order to probe how cultural production embodies the tensions between the abstract universality of human rights and the materiality of violations on individual human bodies and on determined groups the volume asks the following questions:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>How does the transmission of historical traumas of Colombia’s past through human rights narratives in various forms inform the debates around the subjects of rights truth and memory remembrance and forgetting and the construction of citizenship through solidarity and collective struggles for justice?</li> <p> </p> <li>What are the different roles taken by cultural products in the interstices among rights laws and social justice within different contexts of state violence and states of exception? </li> <p> </p> <li>What are alternative perspectives sources and (micro)histories from Colombia of the creation evolution and practice of human rights? </li> <p> </p> <li>How does the human rights discourse interface with notions of environmental justice especially in the face of global climate change regional (neo)extractivism the implementation of megaprojects and ongoing post-accord thefts and (re)appropriations of land? </li> </ul><p>Through a wide range of disciplinary lenses the different chapters explore counter-hegemonic concepts of human rights decolonial options struggling against oppression and market logic and alternative discourses of human dignity and emancipation within the pluriverse.</p>