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Janey Program in Latin American Studies
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2012/13 Janey Annual Workshop: Gema Santamaría and Luis Herrán-Avila
April 12, 2013 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Friday April 12th, 12pm, History Conference Room 529
Janey Fellows Gema Santamaría and Luis Herrán-Avila present their most recent work based on the 2012/2013 Janey Summer Fellowship he was awarded. See titles and abstracts below:
Gema Santamaría: The Politics and Publics of Lynching and Extrajudicial Violence in the 1930s: the case of Puebla, Mexico
The aim of this paper is to analyze the diverse and at times contradictory representations of lynching violence in the Mexican press during the 1930s. By reviewing various cases of lynching reported in the local newspapers of the state of Puebla, I will analyze what types of events fell under the category of “linchamiento” and will highlight the ways in which lynching violence reflected and influenced ongoing debates about justice, violence and punishment in the 1930s. As such, I will claim that when reporting cases of lynching, journalists and editors alike did not simply described these events but expressed their opinion about the motivations and circumstances surrounding each case, justifying or condemning this form of violence based on what they considered just, legitimate, or acceptable uses of violence.
Luis Herrán-Avila: The bandit, the communist, the enemy: the origins of the counter-insurgent state in Colombia (1946-1958)
This paper analyzes a particular period in the long trajectory of the construction of the Colombian counter-insurgent state and is meant as a preliminary approximation to a longer history of the politico-legal expressions of anti-communism in Colombia. More specifically, I provide a synthetic historical narrative of the period that comprises the period known as La Violencia (1946-1953) and its immediate aftermath, focusing on the interplay between inter-party / state violence, state of siege measures and the language of enmity waged by agents of the state and those “resisting” their violence. At large, the paper integrates notions of “enemy criminal law” with the historiographical and theoretical questions that arise from the “problem” of banditry and its conflation with communism to look at the conditions that allow for the development of a particular form of anti-communist counter-insurgent doctrine that was made legitimate by its incorporation into the legal apparatus via the constitution and the criminal code.