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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818776203321

Autore

Hristov Jasmin

Titolo

Blood and capital : the paramilitarization of Colombia / / Jasmin Hristov

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens : , : Ohio University Press

Toronto : , : Between the Lines, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

0-89680-466-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Ohio University research in international studies. Latin America series ; ; number 48

Disciplina

986.106/35

Soggetti

Political persecution - Colombia

Paramilitary forces - Colombia

Torture - Colombia

Political violence - Colombia

Human rights - Colombia

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 (pages 237-[244]) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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