Guerrilla Marketing - Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia

"This work looks into the Colombian government's efforts to demobilize rebel FARC fighters and transform them into the entrepreneurial subjects and consumer citizens. Anthropologist Alexander Fattal shows how the market has become one of the principal grounds on which counterinsurgency warfare is waged in Colombia."--Supplied by publisher.

About the author

Alexander L. Fattal is assistant professor in the Departments of Film-Video and Media Studies and Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University.

Summary

"This work looks into the Colombian government's efforts to demobilize rebel FARC fighters and transform them into the entrepreneurial subjects and consumer citizens. Anthropologist Alexander Fattal shows how the market has become one of the principal grounds on which counterinsurgency warfare is waged in Colombia."--Supplied by publisher.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Fattal, Alexander L Fattal, Alexander L. Fattal, Alexander L Fattal
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780226590646
• ISBN: 978-0-226-59064-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning; Chicago Studies in Practices o; Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; South America, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, History of the Americas, Central America, Mexico and Central America