- Description
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 236 pages)
- Summary
- "Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. In this book, Aldo Civico draws on interviews with paramilitary death squads and drug lords to provide a cultural interpretation of the country's history of violence and state control. Between 2003 and 2008, Civico gained unprecedented access to some of Colombia's most notorious leaders of the death squads. He also conducted interviews with the victims of paramilitary's violence, drug kingpins, and vocal public supporters of the paramilitary groups. Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, this riveting work demonstrates how the paramilitaries have in essence become the war machine deployed by the Colombian state to control and maintain its territory and political legitimacy"--Provided by publisher.
- Uniform Title
- Para-state (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Para-state (Online)
- Ethnography of Colombia's death squads
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-229) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Prologue: from the field journal -- "Everything I did in the name of peace" -- Fragments from the shadows of war -- Limpieza: the expenditure of spectacular violence -- An ethnography of cocaine -- The intertwinement -- Demobilization and the unmasking of the state.
- LCCN
- 2015022453
- OCLC
- ssj0001570920
- Author
Civico, Aldo.
- Title
The para-state [electronic resource] : an ethnography of Colombia's death squads / Aldo Civico.
- Imprint
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-229) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Note
Ethnography of Colombia's death squads