Josefina A. Echavarría

In/security in Colombia

Writing political identities in the Democratic Security Policy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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A fascinating and comprehensive analysis of the official security discourse in Colombia, this book investigates discursive and material practices that write the identities of state, self and others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 589g
• ISBN-13: 9780719079856
• ISBN-10: 0719079853
• Artikelnr.: 28249244

Autorenporträt

Josefina Echavarría A. is Lecturer in Peace Studies at the University of Innsbruck and in Latin American Studies at the University of Vienna

Inhaltsangabe

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