Resisting Violence : Emotional Communities in Latin America / edited by Morna Macleod, Natalia De Marinis.

1.Resisting Violence: Emotional Communities in Latin America -- 2. Violence, Emotional Communities, and Political Action in Colombia -- 3. Testimony, Social Memory, and Strategic Emotional/Political Communities in Elena Poniatowska's Cr�onicas -- 4. Emotional Histories: A Historiography of Resistances in Chalatenango, El Salvador -- 5. Protesting Against Torture in Pinochet's Chile: Movimiento Contra la Tortura Sebasti�an Acevedo -- 6. Emotions, Experiences, and Communities: The Return of the Guatemalan Refugees -- 7. Political-Affective Intersections: Testimonial Traces Among Forcibly Displaced Indigenous People of Oaxaca, Mexico -- 8. Affective Contestations: Engaging Emotion Through the Sepur Zarco Trial -- 9. Women Defending Women: Memories of Women Day Laborers and Emotional Communities.

This book focuses on emotional engagement in academic research with victims of violence and testimonial documentation in Latin America. It examines the recent history of resistance to violence and political repression in Latin America, highlighting the role of emotions in the political sphere. The authors analyse the role of researchers committed to social change and question the mandate of distance and neutrality in academic research in contexts of extreme violence. They use case studies of social resistance to political violence in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Colombia and Chile.