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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465181403321

Autore

Echavarría Alvarez Josefina

Titolo

In/security in Colombia [[electronic resource] ] : writing political identities in the Democratic Security Policy / / Josefina Echavarría A

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press

New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2010

ISBN

1-78170-218-7

1-84779-291-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Collana

New approaches to conflict analysis

Disciplina

327.861

Soggetti

National security - Colombia

Conflict management - Colombia

Electronic books.

Colombia Politics and government 21st century

Colombia Foreign relations

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 (p. 236-254) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 place5 Resistance and peaces; Resistance to in/security discourses; Resistance discourses to the DSP; The politics of affinity; 6 Final remarks:in/security, peaces, identities and politics; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Based on geo- and biopolitical analyses, this book reconsiders how security policies and practices legitimate state and non-state violence in the Colombian conflict.Using the case study of the official Democratic Security Policy (DSP), Echavarría examines how security discourses write the political identities of state, self and others. She



claims that the DSP delimits politics, the political, and the imaginaries of peace and war through conditioning the possibilities for identity formation. *In/security in Colombia* offers an innovative application of a large theoretical framework on the perfo