In/security in Colombia : Writing political identities in the Democratic Security Policy.
Based on geo- and biopolitical analyses, this book reconsiders how security policies and practices legitimate state and non-state violence in the Colombian conflict. Using the case study of the official Democratic Security Policy (DSP), Echavarría examines how security discourses write the political...
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| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2010
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| Series: | New approaches to conflict analysis.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; List of tables; Introduction; 1 An overview of the Colombian context; Naming the Colombian conflict; Representing the context; 2 Theorising security discourses; Conventional security in international relations; Security from critical perspectives; 3 The end of peace and the beginning of in/security; Rereading the end of peace; The beginning of in/security; 4 Identity categories constructed and produced by the Democratic Security Policy; The Democratic Security government; Hailing subjects into place.
- 5 Resistance and peacesResistance to in/security discourses; Resistance discourses to the DSP; The politics of affinity; 6 Final remarks:in/security, peaces, identities and politics; References; Index.
