Blood and Capital : the Paramilitarization of Colombia.

By:

Hristov, Jasmin [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Research in international studies. Latin America series.Publication details: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780896804661
0896804666

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Blood and Capital : The Paramilitarization of Colombia.DDC classification:

986.106 986.106/35

LOC classification:

HV6322.3.C7

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Contents:

Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1: Neoliberalism or Neopoverty?; 2: The War on the Internal Enemy; 3: The Paraextension of the State's Coercive Apparatus; 4: The Debt to Humanity; 5: The Legalization of Illegality; 6: One of Colombia's "Internal Enemies"; 7: Features of the New Para-Narco-State; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Summary: 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 poli.

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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 poli.