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

• Autore: Echavarría Alvarez Josefina
• Pubblicazione: Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press; New York, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.861
• Soggetto topico: National security - Colombia; Conflict management - Colombia
• Soggetto geografico: Colombia Politics and government 21st century; Colombia Foreign relations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: In
• ISBN: 1-78170-218-7; 1-84779-291-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465181403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New approaches to conflict analysis.