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COMUNA 13 - MEDELLIN
COMUNA 13 - MEDELLIN
WORKING BIBLIOGRAPHY
The following bibliography provides links to books, journal articles, and other research sources
on Comuna 13, Medellín, Colombia. To add material to this bibliography, please contact the project director Dr. David J. Keeling by email or phone (1-270-745-4555).
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
** Álvarez Echeverri, Tiberio (2003). Medellin: de una pequeña villa a una ciudad violenta. IATREIA: Revista Médica Universidad de Antioquia 16(4): 325-335.
** Appelbaum, Nancy (1999). Whitening the Region: Caucano Mediation and “Antioqueno Colonization” in Nineteenth-Century Colombia. The Hispanic American Historical Review 79(4): 631-667.
** Brand, Peter Charles (2005). Estrategias ambientales, legitimación gubernamental y regulación social: exploraciones en cuatro ciudades colombianas. Economía, Sociedad, y Territorio Vol. V(19): 499-534. Available Online in PDF.
** Cardona, Marleny; Garcia, Héctor Iván; Giraldo, Carlos Alberto et al.; (2005). Homicides in Medellín, Colombia, from 1990 to 2002: victims, motives and circumstances. Cadernos de Saúde Pública 21(3), 840-851. Available from: www.scielosp.org. [ISSN 0102-311X. doi: 10.1590/S0102-311X2005000300018].
** Ceballos Melguizo, Ramiro [Trans., Cronshaw Francine] (2001). The Evolution of Armed Conflict in Medellin: An Analysis of the Major Actors. Latin American Perspectives 28(1), 110-131.
** Emcke, Carolin (2005). Operacion Orion in Colombia – The Civilian Population Between Guerrilla, The Military And The Drug Lords. Lettre Internationale 56: 22-30. Online at: http://www.ceeol.com/aspx/issuedetails.aspx?issueid=f8b91f9a-9f92-40fb-95de-f564ce183d20&articleId=2eeb72b7-c201-4bdf-a093-b5479aa7207d.
** Grisales, H., Agudelo, H.B., and Londoño, J.L. (1998). Mortalidad por las cinco primeras causas y su modelación temporal, Medellín, 1987-1996. Revista Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública 16: 27-50.
** Gutiérrez Sanín, Francisco (2004). Crime, (counter-)insurgency and the privatization of security - the case of Medellín, Colombia. Environment and Urbanization 16(2): 17-30.
** Jaramillo F.J., and Turizo R.A. (2003). Mortalidad violenta en Medellín durante el 2002. Boletín del Centro de Referencia Nacional sobre Violencia, Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses, 8: 1-4.
** Jiménez, Blanca Inés (2005). La muerte violenta de un hijo: ¿Continuar o romper con el ciclo de la violencia? Revista del Departamento de Trabajo Social Año 7 [ISSN: 0123-4986]. Abstract available at Revista online .
** Leech, Gary (2004). The War on Terror in Colombia. Available online in Colombia Journal, pp. 1-71 (PDF).
** Musgrove, Philip and Ferber, Robert (1979). Identifying the Urban Poor: Characteristics of Poverty Households in Bogota, Medellin, and Lima. Latin American Research Review 14(2): 25-53.
** Pérez Marín, Mónica (2007). Cartografías de lo público: una aproximación desde los estudios culturales: Esferas públicas juveniles en la comuna 13 de Medellín (Colombia). Investigación y Desarrollo 15(2): 344-365. Available online in PDF.
** Riaño-Alcalá, Pilar (2002). Remembering Place: Memory and Violence in Medellin, Colombia. Journal of Latin American Anthropology 7(1): 276-309. Available Online in PDF.
** Rodríguez-Gázquez, María de los Ángeles (2005). Evolución de la mortalidad por homicidio en Medellín (Colombia): 1975-2003 [Evolution of Homicide Deaths in Medellín, Colombia, 1975-2003]. Gaceta Sanitaria 19(3): online at http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0213-91112005000300010&lng=&nrm=iso.
** Sanín, Francisco Gutiérez and Jaramillo, Ana (2004). Crime, (counter-) insurgency and the privatization of security-the case of Medellin, Colombia. Environment and Urbanization 16(2): 17-30.
** Santiago Correo, Juan (2003). Urban development and urban transport: the Medellín tramway, 1919-1950. Colombian Economic Journal 1(1): 60-94. View this paper Online in PDF.
** Twinam, Ann (1979). Enterprise and Elites in Eighteenth-Century Medellin. The Hispanic American Historical Review 59(3): 444-475.
BOOKS:
** Aricapa, Ricardo (2007). Comuna 13: Crónica de una guerra urbana. Medellín: Universidad de Antióquia. {ISBN: 978-958-655-714-035-4, 2nd Edn.] Online description.
** Botero-Herrera, Fernando (1996) Medellín 1890-1950: Historia urbana y juego de intereses. Medellín: Editorial Universidad de Antioquia. [ISBN:978-9586-552-325]. View Book review.
** Brand, Peter C., Brand, P., and Thomas, M.J. (2005). Urban Environmentalism: Global Change and the Mediation of Local Conflict. London: Taylor & Francis.
** Bushnell, David and Hegel, Georg (1993). Making of Modern Colombia: A Nation in Spite of Itself. Berkeley: University of California Press [ISBN: 9780520082892].
** Dudley, Steven (2004). Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia. New York: Routledge [ISBN: 9780415933032].
** Ferguson, Brodie (2001). Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of paramilitaries in Colombia: Implications for urban security in Medellín. In Human Security for an Urban Century - Local Challenges, Global Perspectives, edited by humansecurity-cities.org, pp. 100-101. [ISBN: 978-0-9782610-0-9] Toronto: Humansecurity-cities.org. Available Online in PDF.
** Gugliotta, Guy and Leen, Jeff (1989). Kings of cocaine : inside the Medelli?n Cartel-- an astonishing true story of murder, money, and international corruption. New York: Simon and Schuster [ISBN 0671649574 and WKU Library HV5840 .C7 G84 1989].
** Kirk, Robin (2004). More Terrible Than Death: Violence, Drugs, and America's War in Colombia. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books. [ISBN: 1-58648-207-6]. View Abstract online.
** Londoño-Vega, Patricia (2002), Religion, culture, and society in Colombia : Medellín and Antioquia, 1850-1930 . New York: Oxford University Press. [ISBN 0199249539 and WKU Library F2281.A6 L67 2002] See also Book Review Online.
** Murdock, Donna (2008). When Women Have Wings: Feminism and Development in Medellin, Colombia. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press [ISBN: 978-0-472-05035-2].
** Rendón, Yoni Alexander (2007). Comuna 13 de Medellin: El drama del conflicto armado. Medellin: Hombre Nuevo Editores.
** Restrepo Uribe, Jorge (1981). Medellín: su origen, progreso y desarrollo. Medellín, Servigráficas.
** Reyes Cardénas, Catalina (1995). Aspectos de la vida social y cotidiana de Medellín, 1890-1930. Bogotá: Colcultura. [ISBN ] Read Book Review online.
** Riaño, Alcalá, Pilar (2006). Dwellers of Memory: Youth and Violence in Medellín, Colombia. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers. [ISBN: 0-7658-0314-3] View Abstract Online.
** Rozema, Ralph (2007) Medellín. In Koonings, K., and Kruijt, D. Fractured Cities: Social Exclusion, Urban Violence and Contested Spaces in Latin America. New York: Zed Books, pp. 57-70. [ISBN: 1-84277-731-9 or 978-1-84277-731-2]. View details online.
** Safford, Frank and Palacios, Marco (2001). Colombia: Fragmented Land, Divided Society. New York: Oxford University Press [ISBN: 978-0195046175].
** Schmidt, Rachel (2001). Girls, gangs and urban violence in Medellín. In Human Security for an Urban Century - Local Challenges, Global Perspectives, edited by humansecurity-cities.org, pp. 48-51. [ISBN: 978-0-9782610-0-9] Toronto: Humansecurity-cities.org. Available Online in PDF.
OTHER PUBLISHED & UNPUBLISHED ARTICLES AND MATERIALS:
MAP OF COMUNA 13. www.derechos.org.
** Angarita Cañas, Pablo Emilio (2003). Dinámicas de guerra y construcción de paz. El caso de la comuna 13 de la ciudad de Medellín, 2000–2003. Available Online in PDF.
** Bastidas, Grace (2007). A Drug-Runners’ Stronghold Finds New Life. The New York Times , August 12: 1-2.
** Bronstein, Hugh (2007) Colombia confronts paramilitary scandal in Medellin. Available online at Reuters .
** CINEP (2008) Noche y Niebla online - Banco de Datos de Derechos Humanos y Violencia Política.
** Eduteka (2003). Educación para la Paz: Comuna 13 de Medellín. Available online at EDUTEKA Colombia.
** Giraldo-Moreno, Javier (2004). Una víctima de la Comuna 13 de Medellín, 2002. Available online at Desde los Márgenes.
** Herrera, Alvaro and Pérez, Mónica (2007). Con las propias voces: una mirada a las esferas públicas desde las prácticas culturales en tres barrios de la Comuna 13 de Medellín. Tesis de Maestría, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
** Herrera, Alvaro and Pérez, Mónica (2006). ¿Es posible construir esferas públicas en contextos de marginalidad, violencias y conflictos sociales? Caso de la Comuna 13 o San Javier de Medellín. Available online in PDF.
** Human Rights Watch (2007). Miryam Eugenia Rua Figueroa et al. v. Colombia, Case 1145-04, Report No. 3/07, Inter-Am. C.H.R., OEA/Ser.L/V/II.130 Doc. 22, rev. 1 (2007). Available online at University of Minnesota Human Rights Library.
** Human Rights Watch (2007). Mery Naranjo et al. v. Colombia, Case 231-05, Report No. 46/07, Inter-Am. C.H.R., OEA/Ser.L/V/II.130 Doc. 22, rev. 1 (2007). Available online at University of Minnesota Human Rights Library.
** Human Rights Watch (1994). Generation Under Fire: Children and Violence in Colombia . focus on Medellin, pp. 1-16.
** Hylton, Forrest (2003). Medellín: Life Under Paramilitary Occupation. Available online at Counterpunch.org .
** Hylton, Forrest (2002). Comuna 13: Colombia's Urban Battleground. Available online at Colombia Journal Online .
** Hylton, Forrest (2002). The Occupied Territories of Medellín. Available online at Colombia Journal Online .
** Kurtz-Phelan Daniel (2007). Colombia’s City On A Hill: Medellín goes from murder capital to model city. Available online at Newsweek.
** Moser, Caroline and McIIwaine, Cathy (2000). Percepciones de la violencia urbana: Técnicas de evaluación participativa. Documento de Trabajo No. 7 sobre Desarrollo Sostenible, Serie: Programa de Paz Urbana. Banco Mundial. Available Online in PDF.
** Municipio de Medellín (1993). Consejería Presidencial para Medellín y su Área Metropolitana,Programa Integral de Mejoramiento de barrios subnormales en Medellín (PRIMED): Estudio de Factibilidad, Municipio de Medellín, Colombia.
** Pearce, Jenny (2007). Violence, Power and Participation: Building Citizenship in Contexts of Chronic Violence. IDS Working Paper 274.Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Available Online in PDF.
** Ramirez, Ivan Darío (2007). MEDELLÍN: LOS NIÑOS INVISIBLES DEL CONFLICTO SOCIAL Y ARMADO. Nem Guerra/Nem paz pp 156-179. Available Online in PDF .
** Ramírez, Jorge Giraldo (2007). Conflicto armado urbano y violencia homicida. El caso de Medellín. Available Online in PDF.
** Roldan, Mary (1997). Citizenship, Class and Violence in Historical Perspective: The Colombian Case. (PDF) Paper Delivered at the Latin American Studies Association Meeting, Guadalajara, Mexico, pp. 1-16.
** Romero, Simon (2007). Medellin’s Nonconformist Mayor Turns Blight to Beauty. The New York Times, July 15, 1-3.
** United Nations (1971)Improvement of slums and uncontrolled settlements; report. Interregional Seminar on the Improvement of Slums and Uncontrolled Settlements, Medellin, Colombia, 1970. UN/Universidad de Antioquia. [WKU Library HV4028 .I54 1970].
** Vaicius, Ingrid and Isacson, Adam (2003). Washington’s ‘New War’ in Colombia: The War on Drugs Meets the War on Terror. International Policy Report, February, 1-19. Available Online in PDF.
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