Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism - Violent Systems of Capital Accumulation in Colombia and Beyond

Informationen zum Autor Jasmin Hristov is Assistant Professor, Department of History and Sociology, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan. She is the author of Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarisation of Colombia (Ohio, 2009) and Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism: Violent Systems of Capital Accumulation (Pluto, 2017). She has had her work featured in the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development , the Journal of Peasant Studies , Social Justice , Latin American Perspectives , and Labour, Capital and Society . Klappentext Why extreme violence is a necessity for capitalist accumulation to occur in Colombia and beyond. Zusammenfassung Why extreme violence is a necessity for capitalist accumulation to occur in Colombia and beyond Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Tables List of Figures List of Acronyms Map of Colombia Preface / Author's Note 1 Introduction: The Spectre of Paramilitarism 2 Foundations for Theorizing Paramilitarism 3 From Colonialism to Neoliberalism: A History of Dispossession 4 Eight Years after the Demobilization of the AUC: the Predatory State-Capital Alliance of Domination (2006-2014) 5 Paramilitarism! Neoliberalism! and Globalization: Towards a New Analytical Framework 6 Conclusion References Index

Product details

• Authors: Jasmin Hristov, Hristov Jasmin
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.09.2014
• EAN: 9780745335018
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3501-8
• No. of pages: 217
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Colombia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, Political Economy, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, For higher / tertiary / university education