Ramirez Maria Clemencia Ramirez

Between the Guerrillas and the State (eBook, PDF)

The Cocalero Movement, Citizenship, and Identity in the Colombian Amazon

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Produktbeschreibung

Responding to pressure from the United States, the Colombian government in 1996 intensified aerial fumigation of coca plantations in the western Amazon region. This crackdown on illicit drug cultivation sparked an uprising among the region's cocaleros, small-scale coca producers and harvest workers. More than 200,000 campesinos marched that summer to protest the heightened threat to their livelihoods. Between the Guerrillas and the State is an ethnographic analysis of the cocalero social movement that emerged from the uprising. Maria Clemencia Ramirez focuses on how the movement unfolded in the department (state) of Putumayo, which has long been subject to the de facto rule of guerrilla and paramilitary armies. The national government portrayed the area as uncivilized and disorderly and refused to see the coca growers as anything but criminals. Ramirez chronicles how the cocaleros demanded that the state recognize campesinos as citizens, provide basic services, and help them to transition from coca growing to legal and sustainable livelihoods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822394204
• Artikelnr.: 54815566

Autorenporträt

María Clemencia Ramírez is a Senior Research Associate and a former Director (2005–2007) of the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History in Bogotá.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
1. History of Colonization, Marginalization, and the State: Guerrillas,
Drug Trafficking, and Paramilitarism in the Colombian Amazon 21
2. Coca and the War on Drugs in Putumayo: Illegality, Armed Conflict, and
the Politics of Time and Space 54
3. Turning Civic Movements into a Social Movement: Antecedents of the
Cocalero Social Movement 86
4. The Cocalero Social Movement: Stigmatization and the Politics of
Recognition and Identity 110
5. Negotiations with the Central Government: Clashing Visions over the
"Right to Have Rights" 134
6. Competing States or Competing Governments? An Analysis of Local State
Formation in a Conflict-Ridden Zone 167
7. From Social to Political Leadership: Gaining Visibility as Civil Society
in the Midst of Increased Armed Conflict 183
8. Plan Colombia and the Depoliticization of Citizenship in Putumayo 214
Epilogue 233
Appendixes 239
Notes 254
References 283
Index 297