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Since 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, author 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 was given unprecedented access to some of Colombia's most notorious leaders of the death squads whose words and life stories he chronicles. He also conducted interviews with the victims of paramilitary's violence, drug kingpins, and 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 the war machine deployed by the Columbian state to control and maintain its territory and political legitimacy.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Para-State
• Subtitle: An Ethnography of Colombia's Death Squads
• Author: Aldo Civico
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780520288515
• ISBN: 0520288513
• ID: 09310877
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 482 g
• Dimensions: 159 × 237 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. December 2015

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