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PROMO CODE: Enter code UCPANT at checkout for 20% off #GuerrillaMarketing when you buy from @UChicagoPress press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books…
A couple photos from @FattAlx's book discussion at @Harvard last week. #GuerrillaMarketing #Colombia #mediaanthropology
"I cried and said, 'My God, why did I have to come here?' I regretted everything." - former guerrilla Claudia on joining the #FARC at a young age. Read more in #GuerrillaMarketing. #Colombia
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A Photographer Confronts His Family’s Tragic Past in Colombia’s War nyti.ms/2IG6thJ
Book launch and discussion with @FattAlx coming up at @HarvardDRCLAS this Thursday! #GuerrillaMarketing #Colombia college.harvard.edu/book-lau…
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Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has launched his security plan for a potential transition, announcing a series of proposals to restore citizen security and neutralize the armed groups that have a hold on the country.
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#GuerrillaMarketing author @FattAlx spoke about the convergence of marketing and militarism in #Colombia at @UMich yesterday.
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Happening now in Weiser 555! Dr. Alex Fattal presents "On Marketing and Militarism: Demobilizing Guerillas and Mobilizing Affect, Colombia and Propaganda in the Early 21st Century"
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Today! 5PM, Weiser 555
"On Marketing and Militarism: Demobilizing Guerrillas and Mobilizing Affect, Colombia and Propaganda in the Early 21st Century" will explore the arguments of Prof. Alex L. Fattal's new book Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia – at Ann Arbor, MI
Lecture is today!
Monday, April 8! LACS Lecture
On Marketing and Militarism: Demobilizing Guerrillas and Mobilizing Affect, Colombia and Propaganda in the Early Twenty-First Century
Alexander L. Fattal, Pennsylvania State University
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Former guerrilla, Gabriel, recounts giving a paramilitary man milk when the man said to him, "Brother, leave here tonight, because they are going to kill you." Read more in #GuerrillaMarketing #Colombia #FARC
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Conversation with Alex Fattal @FattAlx (Penn State) on Guerrilla Marketing hosted by Univ of Michigan Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Monday April 8, 5pm, Ann Arbor. Cosponsored by University of Michigan Latina/o Studies. @umichLACS @UMichES @umichAmCult #Colombia
Mark your calendars! @FattAlx's talk at the University of Michigan is coming up on April 8th. @umichLACS #GuerrillaMarketing #colombia
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Former Farc militants struggle to reintegrate into Colombian society. Latest for @Independent independent.co.uk/news/world… – at Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
"When we came back to the group, they had already taken the babies out of the others. The military operation is what saved my daughter." -a former #FARC guerrilla on how she was allowed to keep her daughter despite the FARC's policy forbidding women from having children
"Guerrilla Marketing is a fascinating book that illustrates how the government’s turn to marketing blurred the boundaries between war and peace by penetrating deep into the emotional space of insurgents and their families." -Lesley Gill #mediaanthropology #colombia
Thankful for this review by Lesley Gill in ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America. revista.drclas.harvard.edu/b…
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an added complication to the Venezuela situation: Colombia's ELN guerrillas - purportedly now operating in 13 of Venezuela's 24 states buff.ly/2uogN5H
"They tied me up by the hands and feet and started hitting me, throwing me four meters downhill..." -a former #FARC guerrilla reflects on when the military captured him. Read more in #GuerrillaMarketing (Illustration by Lucas Ospina).
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Colombia FARC fighters who committed rape were shot: party leader reut.rs/2FaXAJp
