In/security in Colombia : writing political identities in the Democratic Security Policy

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    • Echavarría Alvarez, Josefina

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In/security in Colombia : writing political identities in the Democratic Security Policy

Josefina Echavarría A

(New approaches to conflict analysis)

Manchester University Press, 2010

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Insecurity in Colombia

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-254) and index

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Description

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), Echavarria examines how security discourses write the political identities of state, self and others. She claims that the DSP delimits politics, the political, and the imaginaries of peace and war through conditioning the possibilities for identity formation. In/security in Colombia offers an innovative application of a large theoretical framework on the performative character of security discourses and furthers a nuanced understanding of the security problematique in a postcolonial setting. This wide-reaching study will benefit students, scholars and policy-makers in the fields of security, peace and conflict, and Latin American issues. -- .

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations List of tables Introduction 1. An overview of the Colombian context 2. Theorising security discourses 3. The end of peace and the beginning of In/security 4. Identity categories constructed and produced by the Democratic Security Policy 5. Resistance and peaces 6. Final remarks: in/security, peaces, identities and politics References Index -- .

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