The Para-State

An Ethnography of Colombia's Death Squads
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-520-28852-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 370 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Civico, Aldo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Bürgerkriege
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Prologue: From the Field Journal

Introduction
1 • “Everything I Did in the Name of Peace”
2 • Fragments from the Shadows of War
3 • Limpieza: The Expenditure of Spectacular Violence
4 • An Ethnography of Cocaine
5 • The Intertwinement
6 • Demobilization and the Unmasking of the State
Conclusion

Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Aldo Civico is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rutgers University. Between 2005 and 2008, he facilitated ceasefire talks between the government of Colombia and the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN).