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Author Hristov, Jasmin, author.

Title Paramilitarism and neoliberalism : violent systems of capital accumulation in Colombia and beyond / Jasmin Hristov
Published London : Pluto Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 217 pages) : illustrations, map, tables
Contents Introduction : the spectre of paramilitarism -- Foundations for theorizing paramilitarism -- From colonialism to neoliberalism : a history of dispossession -- Eight years after the demobilization of the AUC : the predatory state-capital alliance of domination (2006-2014) -- Paramilitarism, neoliberalism and globalization : towards a new analytical framework
Summary Examines Colombia's pervasive violence over the last 50 years in Colombia and argues that paramilitarism, as an embodiment of global capitalist accumulation, has resulted in forced displacements, labor repression, subjugation of social movements, decentralization of violence, drug trafficking, and the emergence of para-institutional armed forces across Latin America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 18, 2014)
Subject Paramilitary forces -- Colombia
Political violence -- Colombia
Neoliberalism -- Colombia
Globalization -- Colombia
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Conservatism & Liberalism.
Political violence
Globalization
Neoliberalism
Paramilitary forces
Colombia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781783712328
1783712325
0745335012
9780745335018