Legitimidad y cultura

To date, the growing body of literature about Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) has focused primarily on questions of policy design. It has widely neglected the beneficiaries of policy and their lives beyond DDR programmes. The present study intends to balance this shortcoming by systematically describing the individual perspective of ex-combatants. Through a series of 62 interviews with former Colombian paramilitaries, the themes that are central to their lives are identified. The selection of the interviewees and the interview analysis draw on grounded theory. The goal of...

Entre 2005-2010 se desplegó en Colombia la política pública de "Seguridad Democrática", liderada por el régimen presidencial de Álvaro Uribe Vélez, cuyo objetivo era consolidar un proyecto político-militar de dominación de la sociedad civil. Los grupos y las clases subalternas, dispersas y en vías de organización, se movilizaron mediante protestas y luchas sociales, con las que alcanzaron cierta autonomía individual y colectiva frente al gobierno uribista y el Estado comunitario. Esta obra analiza la historia sociopolítica de los grupos y clases subalternas durante ese periodo, a ...

"Careful and detailed portrayal of the professorial community and scholarly culture in the New Kingdom. Rightly insisting that intellectual development in Nueva Granada is not limited to the era of Charles III, despite an analytical focus on the Enlightenment, Silva traces growth of the university corporation over the entire colonial period in terms of numbers, identity, and influence"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Interviews avec le président colombien Uribe et essais des auteurs suivants : José Obdulio Gaviria, Libardo Botero Campuzano, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, Luis Carlos Restrepo Ramírez, Eduardo Posada Carbó, Mauricio Rubio, Fernando Cepeda Ulloa, Francisco José Lloreda Mera, Darío Acevedo Carmona, Jaime Jaramillo Panesso, Alfonso Monsalve Solórzano, Eduardo Pizarro Leongómez, Mario Aguilera, Carlos Gaviria Díaz and Alejandro Martínez Caballero.