Intersections of Affect, Memory, and Privilege in Bogota, Colombia: Affected by Conflict

Grunow, Hendrikje

​This book explores the intersections of affect, memory and privilege among Bogota’s upper middle class. Combining approaches from memory studies, anthropology, feminist and affect theory, this work is concerned with the implications for the present and potential futures contained in affective encounters. It is structured along four affects describing the social, spatial, historical and political aspects of ‘being affected’ by the Colombian conflict. After showing how the Colombian conflict is rooted in specific affective relationships to land, disappointment and crushed hopes in the context of various peace negotiations are portrayed as the central experiences nurturing a sense of a doubling or re-experiencing of past emotions. Then, a specifically upper-middle class emotional habitus and its implication for the social connections to people more directly affected by the conflict are outlined, and peace as an upper middle-class affect is revealed as a privilege not everyone deserves.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2024-05-27

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783031509346

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-50935-3

Dimensions: 210.0cm x148.0cm

Pages: 211.0