Criminality, Political Power and Conflict

Critical Perspectives

AvJosé Antonio Gutiérrez Danton,Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

The departure point of this book is the understanding of politics and criminality as two historically differentiated domains of human activity that are different but interrelated, and often co-constitutive and overlapping. In everyday political and domestic life, distinguishing between what is political and what is criminal is achieved through different processes and at different territorial levels. These liminal and overlapping areas between the political and the criminal are highly contested spaces. This book argues against ahistorically drawing a separating line between political armed mobilisation and economic criminality. Each chapter shows that not only insurgents, separatists and other political rebels but also the State and elites can, and generally must (because war waging is not cheap), engage in different forms of economic criminality as a result of their political status. In no longer separating criminality and politics, this book is able to offer new concepts with which to analyse civil war, political power and criminality.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-12-16
Mått:156 x 234 x 22 mm
Vikt:709 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Social and Political Power
Antal sidor:376
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526181831

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José A. Gutiérrez is lecturer at the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) at the University of York. Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín is lecturer at the Institute for Political Sudies and International Relations (IEPRI) at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Criminality, political power, and conflict: Critical perspectives – José A. Gutiérrez and Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín1 Beyond Elias and Tilly: Historical sociology, crime and organised violence – Siniša Maleševic2 The politics of criminality: The state, opium, and armed groups in Burma – John Buchanan3 “I have created an idealism”: Explaining public political discourses of the PCC and other organized criminal groups in Latin America – Reynell Badillo Sarmiento4 Inside the Israel complex: The rise of narco-Pentecostalismin Rio de Janeiro – Kristina Hinz and Doriam Borges5 Pro-state armed groups in Northern Ireland: Rethinking the position of ‘loyalist’ armed groups in Northern Ireland – John Doyle6 Killing criminals: Lethal targeting by the paramilitaries in the Colombian civil war – Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín7 Greedy peacemakers: Post-FARC-EP trajectories from political crime to politicised common crime – José A. Gutiérrez8 Resisting and existing with criminalisation: The case of Colombian artisanal and small-scale gold producers – Christoph Kaufmann9 The necropolitics of criminalisation in the Colombian War on Drugs – Irene Vélez-Torres and Chiara Chiavaroli10 Amalgamation of special forces and organized crime in Serbia: Curbing the democratic transition after the downfall of Slobodan Miloševic – Kosta Nikolic, Vladimir Petrovic and Danilo Mandic.11 A heavy hand and a weak arm: Security strategies, political confrontation and state scarcity in Venezuela – Guillermo Sardi and Fernando Garlin-Politis.12 From minería comunitaria to illegal mining: Indigenous territories and mining formalization in Peruvian Amazonia – Gisselle Benites13 Bandits, poetry, and cartooning: A playful visual anthropology – Fernando Garlin-PolitisConcluding remarks – Christian Olsson