The rifle and the title: paramilitary ...
Document type :
Article dans une revue scientifique
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Title :
The rifle and the title: paramilitary violence, land grab and land control in Colombia
Author(s) :
Grajales, Jacobo [Auteur]
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales - UMR 8026 [CERAPS]

Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales - UMR 8026 [CERAPS]
Journal title :
Journal of Peasant Studies
Volume number :
38
Publisher :
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Publication date :
2011-10
ISSN :
0306-6150
Keyword(s) :
State formation
Crime
Land grabbing
Violence
Crime
Land grabbing
Violence
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société
English abstract : [en]
This study explores the links between land ownership contention, private violence and the state. Colombia presents a context where criminal actors participate in the regular functioning of public institutions. The study ...
Show more >This study explores the links between land ownership contention, private violence and the state. Colombia presents a context where criminal actors participate in the regular functioning of public institutions. The study rejects normative conceptions about the link between criminal actors and the state. Crime and violence are not considered as extraneous factors, separated from the political game; they are analyzed as constitutive of logics of competition, accumulation and economic development, ultimately, elements in the process of state formation.Show less >
Show more >This study explores the links between land ownership contention, private violence and the state. Colombia presents a context where criminal actors participate in the regular functioning of public institutions. The study rejects normative conceptions about the link between criminal actors and the state. Crime and violence are not considered as extraneous factors, separated from the political game; they are analyzed as constitutive of logics of competition, accumulation and economic development, ultimately, elements in the process of state formation.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Audience :
Internationale
Popular science :
Non
Administrative institution(s) :
CNRS
Université de Lille
Université de Lille
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