Para-State

An Ethnography of Colombia's Death Squads

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

AvAldo Civico

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Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. In The Para-State, Aldo Civico draws on interviews with paramilitary death squads and drug lords to provide a cultural interpretation of the country's history of violence and state control. Between 2003 and 2008, Civico gained unprecedented access to some of Colombia's most notorious leaders of the death squads. He also conducted interviews with the victims of paramilitary, with drug kingpins, and with vocal public supporters of the paramilitary groups. Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, this riveting work demonstrates how the paramilitaries have in essence become a war machine deployed by the Colombian state to control and maintain its territory and political legitimacy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-11-24
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt370 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520288522

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"The ParaState delivers an important if upsetting (both of our emotions and our delusions) account of how organizations that operate inside and allegedly against the state can enjoy impunity thanks to the state... a sobering tale of the lengths to which the elite will go to render the masses supine and submissive." Anthropology Review Database "Well-written, in a direct and honest way, the book provides a fine descriptive analysis of the experience of an anthropologist doing fieldwork that demonstrates the relevance of considering the points of view of the paramilitaries in explaining paramilitary violence." Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books

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