Para-State
An Ethnography of Colombia's Death Squads
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19980939 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aldo Civico (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 264 |
| Publication date | 2015-11-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Para-State (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/california/9780520288515.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W3165053944 |
| Open Library | OL28577066M |
| ISBN | 9780520288515 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
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, with drug kingpins, and with 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 Colombian state to control and maintain its territory and political legitimacy
Programming language · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Political Economy and Marxism · Colombia · Death squads · Militia movements · Paramilitary forces · politics and government
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |