Jose Angel Gutierrez
Biographic Data
| ID | 268794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jose Angel Gutierrez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jose Angel |
| FAMILY NAME | Gutierrez |
| SIGNATURE | GUTIERREZ J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2335-2677 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dealing with Complexity in Civil War: A Genealogical Approach to Understanding Armed Groups
In protracted conflicts, armed groups frequently fragment, re-emerge, or transform their own identities. Due to this complexity, observers frequently agglutinate armed groups into categories that may do poor justice to their current identity, generating flawed labels and mistaken empirical expectations. In this article, we argue that current characterisations of post-2016 Colombian conflict are a prime example of this distortion. We introduce wha…
Rebel Governance: A Matter of Time
Gone with the Rebels: Reshaping Local Orders in Post-Peace Agreement Colombia
The 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP, and the demobilization of the latter, dismantled the governance structures in regions formerly under rebel control. Drawing from a relational security framework, this article explores how, across three case-studies, communities use their former experience of rebel governance as a framework through which they could express expectations and dissatisfaction with new types of …
Process and Effect in Tilly’s Analytical Toolbox: A Brief Discussion of Charles Tilly’s State-Making and War-Making Model
A tax like any other? Rebel taxes on narcotics and war time economic order
Introduction. Anarchism and the national question—historical, theoretical and contemporary perspectives
This article provides an introduction to the themed section ‘Anarchism and the national question—historical, theoretical and contemporary perspectives.’ We discuss first the long and often overlooked engagement of anarchists with the colonial and national liberation question, particularly—but not exclusively—in the heyday of the movement (from the second half of the 19th to the first decades of the 20th century). We discuss in particular the over…
October 2017 in Catalonia: The anarchists and the procés
The circumstances surrounding the call for a referendum on national independence in Catalonia in October 2017 led to high levels of collaboration between two, at first sight, unlikely partners: anarchists and Catalan independentists. Unlikely as this alliance may seem, it was well grounded on a number of factors: first of all, in the State response to the independentist challenge—the massive repression and the blockading of institutional channels…
Tillyian process without a Tillyian effect: Criminalised economies and state-building in the Colombian conflict
Illegal economies have received substantial attention in conflict studies over the past decades. Often, this attention is linked to economicist paradigms, rendering invisible the political processes linking conflict and illegal economies. By discussing the Colombian case, we argue that criminalisation is linked to patterns of capital accumulation and State-building. First, it reflects a long-term conflict of Proudhonian overtones between small-sc…
The unspoken red-line in Colombia: Gender reordering of women ex-combatants and the transformative peace agenda
Academic perspectives on women in conflict have been consistently moving away from the reductionist narrative of victimhood or deviation from gender norms. Yet, this narrative is still predominant in humanitarian discourses, while it is assumed that women’s participation in peacebuilding derives from their natural proclivities. These narratives, we argue, reinforce the gendered patriarchal post-conflict order as ex-combatant women are pushed into…
Whatever we have, we owe it to coca’. Insights on armed conflict and the coca economy from Argelia, Colombia
Since the formal declaration of the War on Drugs in the 1980s, illicit drugs and crops have been regarded primarily as a security problem. However, without a comprehensive development strategy and deep transformative reform addressing structural issues (land, resources, market access, etc.), it is a war bound to be lost despite enormous human suffering. In Colombia, agrarian development came as the first topic in the agenda between the FARC-EP an…
Eating, Shitting and Shooting: A Scatological and Culinary Approximation to the Daily Lives of Rebels
Everything that comes in, eventually goes out. One way or another. This paper will look into eating and defecating practices among rebels in Colombia, in particular, the FARC-EP. I will argue that these practices, despite being daily occurrences, have been overlooked in conflict studies. I will argue that eating practices in particular reinforced emotional bonds within the organization and fostered micro-solidarity. At the same time, eating and d…
Y si hubieran cumplido? Las drogas ilegales y el Acuerdo de paz más allá de los (obvios) incumplimientos
La relación entre economías ilícitas y conflictos armados ha sido objeto de una prolífica literatura académica durante las últimas décadas, y existe un creciente cuestionamiento a la noción de una relación unívoca entre ambos. El Acuerdo de paz celebrado entre el Gobierno nacional de Colombia y las Fuerzas Revolucionarias Armadas de Colombia - Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) ha replicado la premisa de que solucionar el problema de las drogas ilícit…
The counter-insurgent paradox. How the Farc-EP successfully subverted counter-insurgent institutions in Colombia
Institutions are historical products shaped by power and contestation which don’t necessarily respond to the purpose for which they were originally created. I will explore how ‘communal action’ institutions created to contain the advancement of the insurgent movement in rural Colombia in the 1950s were eventually used by guerrillas, notably the FARC-EP. Through them, rebels advanced their political agenda, reinforcing their organisational work in…
‘A walk with the lads’: Masculinities’ perspectives, gender dynamics and resilience in Soacha, Colombia
Rebels-Turned-Narcos? The Farc-EP’s Political Involvement in Colombia’s Cocaine Economy
According to the ‘rebels-turned-narcos’ premise, increasing involvement in the illicit drug industry causes insurgent groups to lose sight of their political aims, as they shift their focus to profit-making. The (former) Colombian rebel group, the FARC-EP, became a paragon for this idea. Drawing on primary research, we argue that the FARC-EP’s involvement in the illicit drug economy was itself political. Their involvement included governance acti…
The nation against the State: The Irish question and Britain‐based anarchists in the Age of Empire
This paper discusses the relationship between early anarchism and republican/nationalist ideas. We will focus on the case of British‐based activists grouped around the journal Freedom and their engagement with Irish nationalism during the Age of the Empire. Freedom, founded in 1886, was the most important anarchist journal of the English‐speaking anarchist–communist networks at the time and was the main editorial reference for the worldwide commu…
Toward a New Phase of Guerrilla Warfare in Colombia? The Reconstitution of the Farc-EP in Perspective
The August 2019 announcement by some top former commanders of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo guerrillas in Colombia that they were resuming armed struggle was a major shock after the peace agreement between the rebels and the Colombian government in 2016. It was the clearest symptom of the current crisis of the peace process. It was not, however, an unforeseeable development. The government had brazenly attack…
What do rebels do when they rule
The first wave of insurgency studies was undoubtedly influenced by the national liberation struggles taking place in Indochina, Africa and elsewhere from the 1950 and into the 1970s. The past fifte
Socio-economic rights from below: Social contestation and constitutionalism in Ireland (1848–2016)
Heaven, hell, and everything in between: Murals of the colonial Andes by Ananda Cohen Suarez
Heaven, hell, and everything in between: Murals of the colonial Andes by Ananda Cohen Suarez." Visual Studies, 32(3), pp. 285–286
Visualizing Haiti in U.S. culture, 1910–1950 by Lindsay J. Twa
"Visualizing Haiti in U.S. culture, 1910–1950 by Lindsay J. Twa." Visual Studies, 31(4), pp. 355–356
Andrew Sanders (2011). Inside the IRA: Dissident Republicans and the War for Legitimacy
Soapbox rebellion. The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909–1916
Soapbox rebellion. The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909–1916." Social Movement Studies, 15(3), pp. 343–344
Paramilitarism and the assault on democracy in Haiti
Farc, The Longest Insurgency (Rebels Series)
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – Army of the People (FARC-EP for its initials in Spanish) are the longest insurgency in the world and a powerful military-political player in such a geo
The nation against the State: The Irish question and Britain‐based anarchists in the Age of Empire
This paper discusses the relationship between early anarchism and republican/nationalist ideas. We will focus on the case of British‐based activists grouped around the journal Freedom and their engagement with Irish nationalism during the Age of the Empire. Freedom, founded in 1886, was the most important anarchist journal of the English‐speaking anarchist–communist networks at the time and was the main editorial reference for the worldwide commu…
The unspoken red-line in Colombia: Gender reordering of women ex-combatants and the transformative peace agenda
Academic perspectives on women in conflict have been consistently moving away from the reductionist narrative of victimhood or deviation from gender norms. Yet, this narrative is still predominant in humanitarian discourses, while it is assumed that women’s participation in peacebuilding derives from their natural proclivities. These narratives, we argue, reinforce the gendered patriarchal post-conflict order as ex-combatant women are pushed into…
Rebels-Turned-Narcos? The Farc-EP’s Political Involvement in Colombia’s Cocaine Economy
According to the ‘rebels-turned-narcos’ premise, increasing involvement in the illicit drug industry causes insurgent groups to lose sight of their political aims, as they shift their focus to profit-making. The (former) Colombian rebel group, the FARC-EP, became a paragon for this idea. Drawing on primary research, we argue that the FARC-EP’s involvement in the illicit drug economy was itself political. Their involvement included governance acti…
The counter-insurgent paradox. How the Farc-EP successfully subverted counter-insurgent institutions in Colombia
Institutions are historical products shaped by power and contestation which don’t necessarily respond to the purpose for which they were originally created. I will explore how ‘communal action’ institutions created to contain the advancement of the insurgent movement in rural Colombia in the 1950s were eventually used by guerrillas, notably the FARC-EP. Through them, rebels advanced their political agenda, reinforcing their organisational work in…
Radicalization in Prisons? Field Research in 25 Spanish Prisons
This article has two principal objectives: (1) to study the behavioral dimensions of Muslim prisoners which predict their Islamist radicalism and (2) to study whether the behavior manifested by them is higher in prisons with a greater concentration of Muslims and a higher presence of prisoners convicted for Islamist terrorism than in prisons with fewer Muslims and no convicted Islamist terrorists. We conclude that some Spanish prisons may provide…
Introduction. Anarchism and the national question—historical, theoretical and contemporary perspectives
This article provides an introduction to the themed section ‘Anarchism and the national question—historical, theoretical and contemporary perspectives.’ We discuss first the long and often overlooked engagement of anarchists with the colonial and national liberation question, particularly—but not exclusively—in the heyday of the movement (from the second half of the 19th to the first decades of the 20th century). We discuss in particular the over…
Eating, Shitting and Shooting: A Scatological and Culinary Approximation to the Daily Lives of Rebels
Everything that comes in, eventually goes out. One way or another. This paper will look into eating and defecating practices among rebels in Colombia, in particular, the FARC-EP. I will argue that these practices, despite being daily occurrences, have been overlooked in conflict studies. I will argue that eating practices in particular reinforced emotional bonds within the organization and fostered micro-solidarity. At the same time, eating and d…
A tax like any other? Rebel taxes on narcotics and war time economic order
October 2017 in Catalonia: The anarchists and the procés
The circumstances surrounding the call for a referendum on national independence in Catalonia in October 2017 led to high levels of collaboration between two, at first sight, unlikely partners: anarchists and Catalan independentists. Unlikely as this alliance may seem, it was well grounded on a number of factors: first of all, in the State response to the independentist challenge—the massive repression and the blockading of institutional channels…
Toward a New Phase of Guerrilla Warfare in Colombia? The Reconstitution of the Farc-EP in Perspective
The August 2019 announcement by some top former commanders of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo guerrillas in Colombia that they were resuming armed struggle was a major shock after the peace agreement between the rebels and the Colombian government in 2016. It was the clearest symptom of the current crisis of the peace process. It was not, however, an unforeseeable development. The government had brazenly attack…
What do rebels do when they rule
The first wave of insurgency studies was undoubtedly influenced by the national liberation struggles taking place in Indochina, Africa and elsewhere from the 1950 and into the 1970s. The past fifte
Process and Effect in Tilly’s Analytical Toolbox: A Brief Discussion of Charles Tilly’s State-Making and War-Making Model
Tillyian process without a Tillyian effect: Criminalised economies and state-building in the Colombian conflict
Illegal economies have received substantial attention in conflict studies over the past decades. Often, this attention is linked to economicist paradigms, rendering invisible the political processes linking conflict and illegal economies. By discussing the Colombian case, we argue that criminalisation is linked to patterns of capital accumulation and State-building. First, it reflects a long-term conflict of Proudhonian overtones between small-sc…
Y si hubieran cumplido? Las drogas ilegales y el Acuerdo de paz más allá de los (obvios) incumplimientos
La relación entre economías ilícitas y conflictos armados ha sido objeto de una prolífica literatura académica durante las últimas décadas, y existe un creciente cuestionamiento a la noción de una relación unívoca entre ambos. El Acuerdo de paz celebrado entre el Gobierno nacional de Colombia y las Fuerzas Revolucionarias Armadas de Colombia - Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) ha replicado la premisa de que solucionar el problema de las drogas ilícit…
The Chicano Movement: Paths to Power
This article is a quick overview of the Chicano Movement (CM) with specific analyses of the five major strategies employed by its adherents to effect social change. The CM was a social movement that occurred in the United States with increased activity in the southwest and midwest during a time frame: 1950s to 1980s. Persons of Mexican ancestry residing in the U.S. were its participants and self-identified as Chicanos. The term Chicano stems from…
Mexican Birthdays: Independence and Revolution, 1810 and 1910
The latter decades of the eighteenth century and first decades of the nineteenth century were full or revolutions and births of new nations, particularly in the Americas. The period has been termed the Age of Revolution. In 2010, Mexico celebrated along with several other countries the two hundred-year celebration of their movement toward independence from Spain. Mexico also celebrated the centennial of their 1910 revolution. Revolutions are cata…
Experiences of Chicana County Judges in Texas Politics: In Their Own Words
Cet article renseigne sur les obstacles rencontres par les Chicanas du Texas dans leurs candidatures aux elections de juges de comtes ainsi que sur leurs difficultes a se maintenir quand elles parviennent a etre elues. Le fait d'etre femmes et issues de communaute Chicana les rend deja tres minoritaires a ces postes (le plus important poste public officiel du Texas) pour des raisons essentiellement socio-economiques, mais elles doivent en plus fa…
Estado nutricional de preescolares de Ciudad de La Habana entre 1972 y 1993
Two anthropometric surveys of children and adolescents have been carried out in Cuba with national samples. A third study done in the province of Ciudad de la Habana provided information on the physical characteristics of the population in that area and a baseline for the periodic evaluation of its nutritional status. This article compares the weight and height results obtained in these surveys for children 0 to 5 years old who lived in this prov…
Experiences of Chicana County Judges in Texas Politics: In Their Own Words
Cet article renseigne sur les obstacles rencontres par les Chicanas du Texas dans leurs candidatures aux elections de juges de comtes ainsi que sur leurs difficultes a se maintenir quand elles parviennent a etre elues. Le fait d'etre femmes et issues de communaute Chicana les rend deja tres minoritaires a ces postes (le plus important poste public officiel du Texas) pour des raisons essentiellement socio-economiques, mais elles doivent en plus fa…
The Making of a Chicano Militant: Lessons from Cristal
Radicalization in Prisons? Field Research in 25 Spanish Prisons
This article has two principal objectives: (1) to study the behavioral dimensions of Muslim prisoners which predict their Islamist radicalism and (2) to study whether the behavior manifested by them is higher in prisons with a greater concentration of Muslims and a higher presence of prisoners convicted for Islamist terrorism than in prisons with fewer Muslims and no convicted Islamist terrorists. We conclude that some Spanish prisons may provide…
The Chicano Movement: Paths to Power
This article is a quick overview of the Chicano Movement (CM) with specific analyses of the five major strategies employed by its adherents to effect social change. The CM was a social movement that occurred in the United States with increased activity in the southwest and midwest during a time frame: 1950s to 1980s. Persons of Mexican ancestry residing in the U.S. were its participants and self-identified as Chicanos. The term Chicano stems from…
Mexican Birthdays: Independence and Revolution, 1810 and 1910
The latter decades of the eighteenth century and first decades of the nineteenth century were full or revolutions and births of new nations, particularly in the Americas. The period has been termed the Age of Revolution. In 2010, Mexico celebrated along with several other countries the two hundred-year celebration of their movement toward independence from Spain. Mexico also celebrated the centennial of their 1910 revolution. Revolutions are cata…
SAI News and Notices
Farc, The Longest Insurgency (Rebels Series)
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – Army of the People (FARC-EP for its initials in Spanish) are the longest insurgency in the world and a powerful military-political player in such a geo
Visualizing Haiti in U.S. culture, 1910–1950 by Lindsay J. Twa
"Visualizing Haiti in U.S. culture, 1910–1950 by Lindsay J. Twa." Visual Studies, 31(4), pp. 355–356
Andrew Sanders (2011). Inside the IRA: Dissident Republicans and the War for Legitimacy
Soapbox rebellion. The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909–1916
Soapbox rebellion. The Hobo Orator Union and the Free Speech Fights of the Industrial Workers of the World, 1909–1916." Social Movement Studies, 15(3), pp. 343–344
Paramilitarism and the assault on democracy in Haiti
Socio-economic rights from below: Social contestation and constitutionalism in Ireland (1848–2016)
Heaven, hell, and everything in between: Murals of the colonial Andes by Ananda Cohen Suarez
Heaven, hell, and everything in between: Murals of the colonial Andes by Ananda Cohen Suarez." Visual Studies, 32(3), pp. 285–286
What do rebels do when they rule
The first wave of insurgency studies was undoubtedly influenced by the national liberation struggles taking place in Indochina, Africa and elsewhere from the 1950 and into the 1970s. The past fifte
‘A walk with the lads’: Masculinities’ perspectives, gender dynamics and resilience in Soacha, Colombia
Rebels-Turned-Narcos? The Farc-EP’s Political Involvement in Colombia’s Cocaine Economy
According to the ‘rebels-turned-narcos’ premise, increasing involvement in the illicit drug industry causes insurgent groups to lose sight of their political aims, as they shift their focus to profit-making. The (former) Colombian rebel group, the FARC-EP, became a paragon for this idea. Drawing on primary research, we argue that the FARC-EP’s involvement in the illicit drug economy was itself political. Their involvement included governance acti…
The nation against the State: The Irish question and Britain‐based anarchists in the Age of Empire
This paper discusses the relationship between early anarchism and republican/nationalist ideas. We will focus on the case of British‐based activists grouped around the journal Freedom and their engagement with Irish nationalism during the Age of the Empire. Freedom, founded in 1886, was the most important anarchist journal of the English‐speaking anarchist–communist networks at the time and was the main editorial reference for the worldwide commu…
Toward a New Phase of Guerrilla Warfare in Colombia? The Reconstitution of the Farc-EP in Perspective
The August 2019 announcement by some top former commanders of the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia-Ejército del Pueblo guerrillas in Colombia that they were resuming armed struggle was a major shock after the peace agreement between the rebels and the Colombian government in 2016. It was the clearest symptom of the current crisis of the peace process. It was not, however, an unforeseeable development. The government had brazenly attack…
Whatever we have, we owe it to coca’. Insights on armed conflict and the coca economy from Argelia, Colombia
Since the formal declaration of the War on Drugs in the 1980s, illicit drugs and crops have been regarded primarily as a security problem. However, without a comprehensive development strategy and deep transformative reform addressing structural issues (land, resources, market access, etc.), it is a war bound to be lost despite enormous human suffering. In Colombia, agrarian development came as the first topic in the agenda between the FARC-EP an…
Eating, Shitting and Shooting: A Scatological and Culinary Approximation to the Daily Lives of Rebels
Everything that comes in, eventually goes out. One way or another. This paper will look into eating and defecating practices among rebels in Colombia, in particular, the FARC-EP. I will argue that these practices, despite being daily occurrences, have been overlooked in conflict studies. I will argue that eating practices in particular reinforced emotional bonds within the organization and fostered micro-solidarity. At the same time, eating and d…
Y si hubieran cumplido? Las drogas ilegales y el Acuerdo de paz más allá de los (obvios) incumplimientos
La relación entre economías ilícitas y conflictos armados ha sido objeto de una prolífica literatura académica durante las últimas décadas, y existe un creciente cuestionamiento a la noción de una relación unívoca entre ambos. El Acuerdo de paz celebrado entre el Gobierno nacional de Colombia y las Fuerzas Revolucionarias Armadas de Colombia - Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) ha replicado la premisa de que solucionar el problema de las drogas ilícit…
The counter-insurgent paradox. How the Farc-EP successfully subverted counter-insurgent institutions in Colombia
Institutions are historical products shaped by power and contestation which don’t necessarily respond to the purpose for which they were originally created. I will explore how ‘communal action’ institutions created to contain the advancement of the insurgent movement in rural Colombia in the 1950s were eventually used by guerrillas, notably the FARC-EP. Through them, rebels advanced their political agenda, reinforcing their organisational work in…
Tillyian process without a Tillyian effect: Criminalised economies and state-building in the Colombian conflict
Illegal economies have received substantial attention in conflict studies over the past decades. Often, this attention is linked to economicist paradigms, rendering invisible the political processes linking conflict and illegal economies. By discussing the Colombian case, we argue that criminalisation is linked to patterns of capital accumulation and State-building. First, it reflects a long-term conflict of Proudhonian overtones between small-sc…
The unspoken red-line in Colombia: Gender reordering of women ex-combatants and the transformative peace agenda
Academic perspectives on women in conflict have been consistently moving away from the reductionist narrative of victimhood or deviation from gender norms. Yet, this narrative is still predominant in humanitarian discourses, while it is assumed that women’s participation in peacebuilding derives from their natural proclivities. These narratives, we argue, reinforce the gendered patriarchal post-conflict order as ex-combatant women are pushed into…
Political science (27 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Law (21 works) · Politics (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Political economy (12 works) · Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · History and Politics in Latin America (7 works)