Between the guerrillas and the state : the cocalero movement, citizenship, and identity in the Colombian Amazon / María Clemencia Ramírez ; translated by Andy Klatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramírez, María Clemencia.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Standardized Title:

Entre el estado y la guerrilla. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cocaine industry--Political aspects--Colombia--Putumayo (Department).

Cocaine industry.

Coca--Political aspects--Colombia--Putumayo (Department).

Coca.

Paramilitary forces--Colombia--Putumayo (Department).

Paramilitary forces.

Guerrillas--Colombia--Putumayo (Department).

Guerrillas.

State-sponsored terrorism--Colombia--Putumayo (Department).

State-sponsored terrorism.

Drug control--Political aspects--Colombia.

Drug control.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Uses 1996 strike by Colombian coca workers as site to study the state and social movements, analyzing how peasants denied full citizenship become political players in a way that defines the Colombian state in the international arena.

Contents:

History of colonization, marginalization, and the state : guerrillas, drug trafficking, and paramilitarism in the Colombian Amazon

Coca and the war on drugs in Putumayo : illegality, armed conflict, and the politics of time and space

Turning civic movements into a social movement : antecedents of the cocalero social movement

The cocalero social movement : stigmatization and the politics of recognition and identity

Negotiations with the central government : clashing visions over the "right to have rights"

Competing states or competing governments? : an analysis of local state formation in a conflict-ridden zone

From social to political leadership : gaining visibility as civil society in the midst of increased armed conflict

Plan Colombia and the depoliticization of citizenship in Putumayo.

Notes:

English translation, revised from first Spanish ed.: Entre el estado y la guerrilla (Bogotá : Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, Colciencias, 2001).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613266064

9781283266062

1283266067

9780822394204

0822394200

OCLC:

850147266