The Para-state : an ethnography of Colombia's death squads / Aldo Civico.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Civico, Aldo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death squads--Colombia.

Death squads.

Paramilitary forces--Colombia.

Paramilitary forces.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

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

4. An Ethnography of Cocaine

5. The Intertwinement

6. Demobilization and the Unmasking of the State

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520963405

0520963407

OCLC:

1058382480