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OverviewSince its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. In The Para-State, 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, with drug kingpins, and with 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 a war machine deployed by the Colombian state to control and maintain its territory and political legitimacy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aldo CivicoPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9780520288515ISBN 10: 0520288513 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 24 November 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: From the Field Journal Introduction 1 * Everything I Did in the Name of Peace 2 * Fragments from the Shadows of War 3 * Limpieza: The Expenditure of Spectacular Violence 4 * An Ethnography of Cocaine 5 * The Intertwinement 6 * Demobilization and the Unmasking of the State Conclusion Notes References IndexReviewsThe ParaState delivers an important if upsetting (both of our emotions and our delusions) account of how organizations that operate inside and allegedly against the state can enjoy impunity thanks to the state... a sobering tale of the lengths to which the elite will go to render the masses supine and submissive. Anthropology Review Database The ParaState delivers an important if upsetting (both of our emotions and our delusions) account of how organizations that operate inside and allegedly against the state can enjoy impunity thanks to the state... a sobering tale of the lengths to which the elite will go to render the masses supine and submissive. Anthropology Review Database Well-written, in a direct and honest way, the book provides a fine descriptive analysis of the experience of an anthropologist doing fieldwork that demonstrates the relevance of considering the points of view of the paramilitaries in explaining paramilitary violence. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books """The ParaState delivers an important if upsetting (both of our emotions and our delusions) account of how organizations that operate inside and allegedly against the state can enjoy impunity thanks to the state... a sobering tale of the lengths to which the elite will go to render the masses supine and submissive."" Anthropology Review Database ""Well-written, in a direct and honest way, the book provides a fine descriptive analysis of the experience of an anthropologist doing fieldwork that demonstrates the relevance of considering the points of view of the paramilitaries in explaining paramilitary violence."" Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books" Author InformationAldo Civico is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rutgers University. Between 2005 and 2008, he facilitated ceasefire talks between the government of Colombia and the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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