Ramírez / Maria Clemencia Ramirez Between the Guerrillas and the State

The Cocalero Movement, Citizenship, and Identity in the Colombian Amazon
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9420-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

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Uses 1996 strike by Colombian coca workers as site to study the state and social movements, analyzing how peasants denied full citizenship become political players in a way that defines the Colombian state in the international arena.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramírez, María Clemencia

Maria Clemencia Ramirez, Ramirez

Weitere Mitwirkende

Klatt, Andy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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