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Para-state : an ethnography of Colombia's death squads /

"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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Civico, Aldo (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.