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The destruction of Canudos (or Belo Monte, as it was known by its inhabitants) in 1897 was a profoundly traumatic episode in Brazilian history. It took the Bahian state and Brazilian national governments four military expeditions to destroy what they perceived as the threat of this community of rural backlanders led by Antônio Conselheiro, a lay Catholic religious leader. The lengthy account of the campaigns against Canudos written by Euclides da Cunha, a young army officer who witnessed the community's destruction, Os sertões (1902, translated as Rebellion in the Backlands), profoundly shaped Brazilians' understandings of the movement and subsequent historiography and writing about the movement.

Peasants who settled in the Colombian Amazon region as a result of different waves of migration, and who today grow coca, have been stigmatized as criminals with no regional identity. The central state does not accord them a place within national society except as guerrilla auxiliaries or drug traffickers. As such, they can be the object of state violence. The collective identities in the Amazon region are shaped by the sense of exclusion from and abandonment by the central state, and politicized identities emerge as a protest against exclusion and misrecognition.

Este libro surge en el marco del tercer observatorio sociopolítico y cultural, en convergencia con diversos esfuerzos investigativos y con el fin de hacer un análisis acerca del papel de los actores sociales en la construcción de democracia. / Contenido; Preliminares; Capítulo 1 - Luchas laborales y cívicas; Capítulo 2 - Protestas agrarias; Capítulo 3 - Acción colectiva y etnicidad; Capítulo 4 - Movimientos de mujeres; Capítulo 5 - Movilizaciones por la Paz y Derechos Humanos; Capítulo 6 - Imaginarios, territorios y normatividad; Anexos.