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In/security in Colombia : writing political identities in the Democratic Security Policy / Josefina Echavarria A.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Echavarría Alvarez, Josefina, author.
- Series:
- New approaches to conflict analysis.
- New approaches to conflict analysis
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National security--Colombia.
- National security.
- Conflict management--Colombia.
- Conflict management.
- Colombia--Politics and government--21st century.
- Colombia.
- Colombia--Foreign relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 258 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Based on geo- and biopolitical analyses, this book reconsiders how security policies and practices legitimate state and non-state violence in the Colombian conflict, and uses the case study of the official Democratic Security Policy (DSP) to examines how security discourses write the political identities of state, self and others. It claims that the DSP delimits politics, the political, and the imaginaries of peace and war through conditioning the possibilities for identity formation. The book offers an innovative application of a large theoretical framework on the performative character of security discourses and furthers a nuanced understanding of the security problematique in a postcolonial setting.
- Contents:
- Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; List of tables; Introduction; 1 An overview of the Colombian context; Naming the Colombian conflict; Representing the context; 2 Theorising security discourses; Conventional security in international relations; Security from critical perspectives; 3 The end of peace and the beginning of in/security; Rereading the end of peace; The beginning of in/security; 4 Identity categories constructed and produced by the Democratic Security Policy; The Democratic Security government; Hailing subjects into place.
- 5 Resistance and peacesResistance to in/security discourses; Resistance discourses to the DSP; The politics of affinity; 6 Final remarks:in/security, peaces, identities and politics; References; Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Apr 2026).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781847797506
- 1847797504
- 9781781702185
- 1781702187
- 9781847792914
- 184779291X
- OCLC:
- 818847409
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