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Guerrilla Marketing
Brand warfare is real. Guerrilla Marketing details the Colombian government’s efforts to transform Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens. Alexander L. Fattal shows how the market has become one of the principal grounds on which counterinsurgency warfare is waged and postconflict futures are imagined in Colombia. This layered case study illuminates a larger phenomenon: the convergence of marketing and militarism in the twenty-first century. Taking a global view of information warfare, Guerrilla Marketing combines archival research and extensive fieldwork not just with the Colombian Ministry of Defense and former rebel communities, but also with political exiles in Sw...
The Unintended Consequences of Peace
A rigorous global examination of the links between peaceful borders and illicit transnational flows of crime and terrorism.
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 77
A new volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American Studies, compiled by the Library of Congress.
Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature
The Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature traces the aesthetic and political development of the Gothic genre in Colombia. Gabriel Eljaiek-Rodríguez shows how, in the hands of Colombian writers and filmmakers, Gothic tropes are taken to their extremes to reflect particularly Colombian issues, like the ongoing armed conflict in the country since the 1950s as various left wing guerillas, government factions and paramilitary groups escalated violence. In this context, collectives such as the “Cali group” challenge both the centrality of US and European Gothics as well as the centrality of Bogota-centered perspectives of Colombian politics and conflict. The book demonstrates how writers and filmmakers transform the European and American Gothic to show genealogical links between colonization, imperialism and domestic elites’ maintenance of social inequalities.
Hyperborder
Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.
Caribbean Revolutions
A comprehensive history and comparative analysis of the most important Caribbean armed revolutionary movements during the Cold War era.
Matters of Justice
After the fall of the Porfirio Díaz regime, pueblo representatives sent hundreds of petitions to Pres. Francisco I. Madero, demanding that the executive branch of government assume the judiciary’s control over their unresolved lawsuits against landowners, local bosses, and other villages. The Madero administration tried to use existing laws to settle land conflicts but always stopped short of invading judicial authority. In contrast, the two main agrarian reform programs undertaken in revolutionary Mexico—those implemented by Emiliano Zapata and Venustiano Carranza—subordinated the judiciary to the executive branch and thereby reshaped the postrevolutionary state with the support of v...
Actores no estatales
Este libro contiene resultados de proyectos desarrollados por los grupos de investigación "Agenda internacional", de la Universidad del Norte (Colombia; "Conflcitos políticos y culturales contemporáneos" y "Eurasia: pensamiento social", de la Universidad de Salamanca (España. Se erige como una reflexión sobre algunos de los actores no estatales contemporáneos más relevantes de la escena colombiana, africana y asiática, y pone de manifiesto el incremento en la calidad y el alcance de su participación e influencia en los asuntos nacionales y mundiales.
Aproximaciones, reflexiones y criticas preliminares sobre el Derecho Internacional Humanitario. Tomo I.
La creación de un grupo de investigación de derecho internacional humanitario supone un doble reto. Por un lado, la dificultad de recoger las diferentes visiones con respecto al papel del Estado en escenarios de conflicto armado. Por otro, la consciencia de que la búsqueda de teorizaciones sobre el conflicto armado se cimienta sobre las pérdidas y profundos dolores de las víctimas. Este grupo de investigación conformado por Édgar Solano González, Manuela Losada Chavarro, María Camila Medina García y María Alejandra Osorio Alvis ha podido asumir ese reto con el apoyo incondicional del doctor Humberto Sierra Porto, director del Departamento de Derecho Constitucional. Esta obra colectiva es el resultado del interés de la comunidad académica y jurídica que de manera desinteresada aceptó nuestro llamado a construir Estado desde la perspectiva teórica del conflicto armado. Gracias a las autoras y los autores que participaron en estos libros podemos entregar un producto que espera fortalecer la dogmática del derecho internacional humanitario en Colombia y Latinoamérica
