1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460292003321

Autore

Kline Harvey F.

Titolo

Fighting monsters in the abyss : the second administration of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez, 2006-2010 / / Harvey F. Kline

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University Alabama Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8173-8884-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (269 p.)

Disciplina

986.106/34

Soggetti

Human rights - Colombia - History - 21st century

Political violence - Colombia - History - 21st century

Justice, Administration of - Colombia - History - 21st century

Electronic books.

Colombia Politics and government 1974-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Historical background to the Colombian state in 2006 -- The concepts of the state and state building -- State building in Colombia before 1998 -- The immediate context: the Andres Pastrana Presidency and Alvaro Uribe's first -- Term -- The legitimate monopoly of force challenge -- Violence and human rights during the second Uribe term -- Failure with guerilla groups during the second Uribe term -- The justice challenge -- The conflicts of president Uribe with the judicial branch -- Enforcement of the law of justice and peace -- Unsolved problems after the paramilitary demobilization: parapolitica and new -- Emerging bands -- Into the abyss? -- The difficulties coming from allowing the ends to justify the means -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Average number of human rights violations in Colombia, 1982-90, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights -- Comparison of human rights violations in Colombia in the Barco and Gaviria years, according to the Comision Intercongregacional de Justicia y Paz -- Levels of violence during the Alvaro Uribe Velez presidency, according to the National Planning Department -- Levels of violence, January-October 2002-9, according to the Fundacion Seguridad y



Democracia -- Levels of homicide and kidnapping 2002-10, according to the Ministry of Defense -- Acts of war 2002-10, according to the Ministry of Defense -- Human rights violations during the Uribe years, according to the Centro de Investigacion y Educacion Popular -- Chronology of the arguments between President Uribe and the Supreme Court -- Information about the presence of emerging criminal bands in 2010 -- E.1. Comparison of the number of troops of the Colombian Armed Forces and the FARC, 1999 and 2012.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910737294003321

Autore

Chio Jenny

Titolo

A landscape of travel : the work of tourism in rural ethnic China / / Jenny Chio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , [2014]

©2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxi, 294 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies on ethnic groups in China

Disciplina

951.004

Soggetti

China Ethnic relations

China Rural conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

While the number of domestic leisure travelers has increased dramatically in reform-era China, the persistent gap between urban and rural living standards attests to ongoing social, economic, and political inequalities. The state has widely touted tourism for its potential to bring wealth and modernity to rural ethnic minority communities, but the policies underlying the development of tourism obscure some complicated realities. In tourism, after all, one person's leisure is another person's labor. A Landscape of Travel investigates the contested meanings and unintended consequences of tourism for those people whose lives and livelihoods are most at stake in China's rural ethnic tourism industry: the residents of village destinations. Drawing



on ethnographic research conducted in Ping'an (a Zhuang village in Guangxi) and Upper Jidao (a Miao village in Guizhou), Jenny Chio analyzes the myriad challenges and possibilities confronted by villagers who are called upon to do the work of tourism. She addresses the shifting significance of migration and rural mobility, the visual politics of tourist photography, and the effects of touristic desires for "exotic difference" on village social relations. In this way, Chio illuminates the contemporary regimes of labor and leisure and the changing imagination of what it means to be rural, ethnic, and modern in China today.