Paramilitaries and Discourses of Culpability in Colombia and Washington

The Observatory on Latin America of The New School invites you to a presentation by Winifred Tate, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Colby College, who will present her new research on Paramilitaries and Discourses of Culpability in Colombia and Washington, D.C. at The New School. Janet Roitman, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at The New School, will comment on Professor Tate's paper.

Tate's paper examines the complicity and culpability of Colombian paramilitaries in human rights violations in Colombia over the past decade. It compares the stated viewpoints of U.S. policymakers and the Colombian media, with those of inhabitants of southern Colombia. Tate explores U.S. agents' representations of Colombian paramilitaries — as being the natural expression of a frustrated Colombian middle class — and the parallel ways in which paramilitary commander testimony circulated within the Colombian media.

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• paramilitarism
• paramilitars
• Colombia
• OLA
• Observatory on Latin America
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