Blood and Capital : the Paramilitarization of Colombia.

Blood and Capital : the Paramilitarization of Colombia.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hristov, Jasmin, author.
Imprint:	Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (289 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Research in International Studies, Latin America Series Research in international studies. Latin America series.
Subject:	Political persecution -- Colombia. Paramilitary forces -- Colombia. Torture -- Colombia. Political violence -- Colombia. Human rights -- Colombia. Human rights. Paramilitary forces. Political persecution. Politics and government Political violence. Torture. Colombia -- Politics and government -- 1974- Colombia.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12540125

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ISBN:	9780896804661 0896804666
Notes:	Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Hristov, Jasmin. Blood and Capital : The Paramilitarization of Colombia. Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, ©2014

Table of 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.