Fields of Fire

Emancipation and Resistance in Colombia

Louis Edgar Esparza

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Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
15 June 2024

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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, Fields of Fire argues that networks rather than individual characteristics are associated with mobilization. This book features unique ethnographic material of a Colombian sugarcane worker strike, interviews with workers and human rights activists in Valle del Cauca and Bogotá reveal different forms of knowledge that activists bring to a social movement. Esparza argues that the combination of these different forms of knowledge bolsters the movement’s resiliency in the face of repression.

By: Louis Edgar Esparza
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 160mm,
ISBN: 9781666927047
ISBN 10: 166692704X
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 15 June 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Table of Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Risk Chapter 2 Emancipatory Networks Chapter 3 Humiliation Chapter 4 Leadership Chapter 5 Bogotá Chapter 6 Conclusion Appendix A References About the author

Louis Edgar Esparza is professor of sociology at California State University-Los Angeles.

Reviews for Fields of Fire: Emancipation and Resistance in Colombia

Situated at the crossroad of social movement scholarship and Latin American Studies, a peak moment of political contention in Colombia's recent history is told with the accuracy of a social scientist, the vivid descriptions of an intrepid ethnographer and the empathy of a native son. --Gilda Zwerman, SUNY-Old Westbury This is a brilliant and entertaining study of rural Colombia, showing how invisible social networks actually work to spark political action, often suddenly and surprisingly. It combines poetic ethnographic observation with high-level theories of political action. --James M. Jasper, author of The Art of Moral Protest