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Blood and capital : the paramilitarization of Colombia / Jasmin Hristov.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hristov, Jasmin, author.
- Series:
- Research in international studies. Latin America series ; no. 48.
- Ohio University research in international studies. Latin America series ; number 48
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political persecution--Colombia.
- Political persecution.
- Paramilitary forces--Colombia.
- Paramilitary forces.
- Torture--Colombia.
- Torture.
- Political violence--Colombia.
- Political violence.
- Human rights--Colombia.
- Human rights.
- Colombia--Politics and government--1974-.
- Colombia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press ; Toronto : Between the Lines, [2009]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia. She conducts an in-depth inquiry into the restructuring of the state's coercive apparatus and the phenomenon of paramilitarism by looking at its military, political, and legal dimensions. Hristov demonstrates how various interrelated forms of violence by state forces, paramilitary groups, and organized crime are instrumental to the process of capital accumulation by the local elite as well as the exercise of political power
- Contents:
- Neoliberalism or neopoverty? The promises and the reality of the neoliberal agenda
- The war on the internal enemy : the origin, structure, mechanisms, and activities of the state's coercive apparatus
- The paraextension of the state's coercive apparatus : looking at the paramilitary monster
- The debt to humanity
- The legalization of illegality
- One of Colombia's "internal enemies" : the indigenous movement of Cauca
- Features of the new para-narco-state.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-[244]) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780896804661
- 0896804666
- OCLC:
- 885123705
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