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L'Etat malgré tout
Dans l’après-guerre froide, de nombreux observateurs s’inquiétaient de la multiplication de « nouveaux » conflits armés, et promettaient des États « faibles » ou en « faillite ». À rebours de ces approches, les auteurs analysent des situations dans lesquelles la violence est une forme d’action politique routinière. Les principaux protagonistes sont de multiple nature. On observe des groupes armés qui, loin de se placer simplement dans l’opposition ou la défense d’un ordre établi, naviguent dans un espace de dissidence relative. Des organisations qui exigent leur intégration à l’État, et visent à en être reconnues comme des intermédiaires, des partisans, voire...
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Call the Mothers
A gripping portrait of the relentless women taking missing persons, kidnapping, and extortion cases into their own hands—and building a movement for one another. In this riveting exploration of the lives of mothers whose children are among the 100,000 disappeared in Mexico’s war on drugs, Shaylih Muehlmann shows how families have mobilized on the ground to get answers and justice. It is often mothers who confront government corruption, indifference, and incompetence by taking on the responsibilities of searching for missing persons and dealing with kidnapping and extortion cases. In bringing the voices of these women to the fore, Muehlmann demonstrates how the war on drugs affects everyday life in Mexico and how these activists have become detectives, forensic specialists, and even negotiators with drug traffickers. Call the Mothers provides a unique look at a grassroots movement that draws from the symbolic power of motherhood to build a network of collectives that redefine traditional gender roles and challenge injustice and impunity.
Paramilitarism
From the deserts of Sudan to the jungles of Colombia, from the streets of Belfast to the mountains of Kurdistan, paramilitaries have appeared in violent conflicts. Ungor presents a comparative and global overview of paramilitarism, showing how states use it to successfully outsource mass political violence against civilians.
Violence and Social Transformation in Libya
Ten years after Libya descended into conflict, the contours of a new society are emerging. How has violence remade the country—what has happened to inter-community and inter-personal relations, to social hierarchies and elite composition? Which new groups, networks and identities have formed through conflict, and how has this transformed power structures, modes of capital accumulation and governance at the local and national levels? How has the violence contributed to create new communities, both inside the country and in exile? This volume brings together leading researchers, both foreign and Libyan, to examine the deep changes undergone by Libya’s society amid civil war. These transformations are bound to shape the country for decades to come, and will influence its relations with the outside world. By addressing neglected yet crucial aspects of social change amid violence, the contributors substantially broaden the picture of Libyan society beyond the current confines of scholarship, as well as enriching wider debates in Conflict Studies.
La Guerre civile irakienne
Kirkouk, dans le nord de l’Irak, est l’une des provinces les plus touchées par la violence politique. Les conflits s’y superposent depuis plusieurs décennies : mobilisations sociales, guerre entre partis kurdes et État central, lutte d’influence entre les puissances régionales, insurrection arabe sunnite et montée en puissance des milices chiites. Kirkouk constitue donc un point d’observation privilégié des dynamiques politiques qui travaillent la société irakienne. En particulier, les partis – ethno-nationalistes ou religieux – sont à la fois producteurs de violence et intermédiaires obligés entre la population et les institutions étatiques, qui restent l’enjeu ...
Rule and Rupture
Rule and Rupture - State Formation Through the Production of Property and Citizenship examines the ways in which political authority is defined and created by the rights of community membership and access to resources. Combines the latest theory on property rights and citizenship with extensive fieldwork to provide a more complex, nuanced assessment of political states commonly viewed as “weak,” “fragile,” and “failed” Contains ten case studies taken from post-colonial settings around the world, including Cambodia, Nepal, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Rwanda, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia, and Bolivia Characterizes the results of societal ruptures into three types of outcomes for political power: reconstituted and consolidated, challenged, and fragmented Brings together exciting insights from a global group of scholars in the fields of political science, development studies, and geography
Cocaine
The contributors to Cocaine analyze the contemporary production, transit, and consumption of cocaine throughout the Americas and the illicit economy's entanglement with local communities. Based on in-depth interviews and archival research, these essays examine how government agents, acting both within and outside the law, and criminal actors seek to manage the flow of illicit drugs to both maintain order and earn profits. Whether discussing the moral economy of coca cultivation in Bolivia, criminal organizations and drug traffickers in Mexico, or the routes cocaine takes as it travels into and through Guatemala, the contributors demonstrate how entire ways of life are built around cocaine co...
