Book contents
- Framing a Revolution
- Framing a Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- I What’s in a Frame?
- II A History of (Gendered) Violence in Colombia
- III Navigating Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration in Colombia
- IV Framing Victimhood
- V Contesting the Victimhood Frame
- VI Framing a Revolution
- VII Countering the Revolution Frame
- VIII Deserters versus Loyalists
- IX Contesting the Deserter Frame
- X Framing Reintegration
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
IX - Contesting the Deserter Frame
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2023
- Framing a Revolution
- Framing a Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- I What’s in a Frame?
- II A History of (Gendered) Violence in Colombia
- III Navigating Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration in Colombia
- IV Framing Victimhood
- V Contesting the Victimhood Frame
- VI Framing a Revolution
- VII Countering the Revolution Frame
- VIII Deserters versus Loyalists
- IX Contesting the Deserter Frame
- X Framing Reintegration
- Book part
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter discusses the two main counter-frames that challenge the loyalist frame about deserters presented in Chapter 8. The main challenge comes from the deserters themselves, who refused to be labelled as traitors and do not want to be identified as ex-combatants, in addition to fearing being hunted down by both loyalists and FARC dissidents. The secondary challenge arises from the government, which continues to place all ex-combatants into the same category of desmovilizado and whose neglect of the collective economic projects promised in the peace agreement is creating mass abandonment of the protected reincorporation zones – thus dismantling the FARC hierarchy and putting the group’s stated revolution project into further jeopardy.
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- Framing a RevolutionNarrative Battles in Colombia's Civil War, pp. 230 - 249Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023