Alex Fattal
@FattAlx
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Author of Guerrilla Marketing (@GuerrillaMarkt) & Shooting Cameras for Peace, documentarian, shooting Guard. Opinions only my own
Joined August 2009
I am thrilled to share the news that @GuerrillaMarkt has won the Sharon Stephens Prize. Hopefully the book helps to sound an alarm about the risks posed by marketing to democracy, and to foster nuanced discussions about demobilization and remobilization in Colombia.
It is with great pleasure that we announce the ethnography, Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia, by Alexander Fattal as the 2019 winner of the American Ethnological Society’s Sharon Stephens Prize. Congratulations, Dr. Fattal!
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"No estamos huyendo de la discusión política", dice Becassino, mentira: huyen. Su campaña es otra: hacen video de @ingrodolfohdez diciendo "sí", otro diciendo "no", y luego, a partir envíos por Facebook y WhatsApp a votantes geoposicionados, envían lo que la persona quieren oír🧵
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SUR-REALISMO BGT
La escena en Bogotá a esta hora no podría ser más surreal. Mientras cae un diluvio como pocos otros, el cielo toma un extrañísimo color naranja. Qué momento más extraño e inusual.
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Last day of screening! "Limbo" addresses how transitional justice in Colombia is geared toward disseminating carefully framed images. @FattAlx eschews prismatic clarity for hazy projections emanating from his camera obscura. https://t.co/NQmLgndvqJ
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Thank you for visiting the Screening Room. This film is no longer available. For more information on Limbo (2019), visit here....
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NEW PODCAST🎙️: The Colombian Military Complex @lauramaduarte, @adam_wola, @jleonlasilla and @FattAlx join @tessacotsirilos and @RaySuarezNews to talk about Colombia's military, peace process and protests. Listen 👉 https://t.co/0RazGGAdZM
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The under-discussed problem of Colombia’s other demobilized… from the military. Good work @julieturkewitz in the @nytimes
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Exporting soldiers has become a vast industry in Colombia, fueled by the country’s long U.S.-backed war, limited opportunity at home and growing demand abroad.
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John Otis reporting on former guerrillas acting as tour guides in Colombia @JohnOtis @GuerrillaMarkt
https://t.co/ZqCYI8Ip71
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FARC rebels used to chain their kidnap victims in the jungle until they received ransom. Now tourists pay ex-guerrillas hundreds of dollars to take them hiking and whitewater rafting there.
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A group of ~1000 academics calling for a more robust response to the military/police violence in Colombia. // Un grupo de ~mil académicos pidiendo una respuesta más contundente a la violencia policiaca/militar en #Colombia @WHNSC @SecBlinken @Cartajuanero
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Both UN Human Rights and Shakira are denouncing the horrific violence of the Colombian military against its own people. I am retweeting @Shakira b/c I suspect she amplifies more. @POTUS, one phone call and short statement would make all the difference.
Es inaceptable que una madre pierda su único hijo a causa de la brutalidad. Y que a otras 18 personas se les arrebaten sus vidas en una protesta pacífica. (1/3)
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LARR Documentary Film Review Perdonar sin olvidar: El difícil proceso de paz en Colombia a través del documental Author: Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez https://t.co/Q6wkIA9Jjp
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Deep thoughts: If the cloud goes up in smoke and the smoke drifts into the clouds, will data rain?
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So many great books coming out about Colombia right now. I am especially looking forward to this one by @federicorios. https://t.co/rm4b4UvnDG
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I just had an incredible encounter. Our doorbell rang, so I opened the window to look below to the front stoop. When I saw a man delivering food, I called out to him, letting him know it must be for our neighbors downstairs. This, so far, is normal.
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these idiots have waited years to turn their online civil war era fetish message boards into a real thing and the government not flagging those as domestic terrorism threats in any serious way is completely to blame
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As the American public watches a segment of the Republican Party try to smack down the will of the people today, it should hold this moment as motivation to fight the cancer on our democracy that is right wing extremism and the Republican Party that enables it.
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We've heard a lot about the "War on Christmas," but Alex Fattal's book demonstrates how the Colombian state has weaponized Christmas as part of its counterinsurgency. Read our forum on Guerrilla Marketing here:
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In the wake of Colombia's peace process after the longest civil war in the Western Hemisphere, somewhere in that "liminal space that is not quite...
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2/2 maybe not the most consequential of stories right now, but symbolic of the convergence of two different kinds of rot.
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1/2 As someone who got bumped from a cable news program to advocate for my brother’s freedom for this story, I have an special interest. There’s so much more to say about this reality spectacle gone haywire, justice, and it’s undoing.
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Richard and Mayumi Heene were accused of concocting a hoax after their 6-year-old son was feared to have floated away in a balloon in 2009. The boy was found safe at home.
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