State of Disorder
Title | State of Disorder PDF eBook |
Author | Abdil Mughis Mudhoffir |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2021-11-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 981163663X |
This book examines the theme of privatised violence in different political settings by focusing on the Indonesian case. It argues that the persistence of privatised violence is not solely related to the historical formation of the institutions of state power and authority; it is also intricately related to predatory forms of capitalist development. Within such contexts, privatised violence is not an obstruction, but instrumental for the capital accumulation process, constituting a state of disorder. The book contributes to understanding not only Indonesia’s privatised violence but also the nature of Indonesian politics and the state.
Accumulation and Subjectivity
Title | Accumulation and Subjectivity PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Benezra |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 2022-03-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1438487584 |
Since the 1970s, sociocultural analysis in Latin American studies has been marked by a turn away from problems of political economy. Accumulation and Subjectivity challenges this turn while reconceptualizing the relationship between political economy and the life of the subject. The fourteen essays in this volume show that, in order to understand the dynamics governing the extraction of wealth under contemporary capitalism, we also need to consider the collective subjects implied in this operation at an institutional, juridical, moral, and psychic level. More than merely setting the scene for social and political struggle, Accumulation and Subjectivity reveals Latin America to be a cauldron for thought for a critique of political economy and radical political change beyond its borders. Combining reflections on political philosophy, intellectual history, narrative, law, and film from the colonial period to the present, it provides a new conceptual vocabulary rooted in the material specificity of the region and, for this very reason, potentially translatable to other historical contexts. This collection will be of interest to scholars of Marxism, Latin American literary and cultural studies, and the intellectual history of the left.
The State, Accumulation and Violence
Title | The State, Accumulation and Violence PDF eBook |
Author | F. O. Nyemutu Roberts |
Publisher | |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Environmental policy |
ISBN |
Drug War Mexico
Title | Drug War Mexico PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Watt |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2012-06-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1848138881 |
Mexico is a country in crisis. Capitalizing on weakened public institutions, widespread unemployment, a state of lawlessness and the strengthening of links between Mexican and Colombian drug cartels, narcotrafficking in the country has flourished during the post-1982 neoliberal era. In fact, it has become one of Mexico's biggest source of revenue, as well as its most violent, with over 12,000 drug-related executions in 2011 alone. In response, Mexican president Felipe Calderón, armed with millions of dollars in US military aid, has launched a crackdown, ostensibly to combat organised crime. Despite this, human rights violations have increased, as has the murder rate, making Ciudad Juárez on the northern border the most dangerous city on the planet. Meanwhile, the supply of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine has continued to grow. In this insightful and controversial book, Watt and Zepeda throw new light on the situation, contending that the 'war on drugs' in Mexico is in fact the pretext for a US-backed strategy to bolster unpopular neoliberal policies, a weak yet authoritarian government and a radically unfair status quo.
Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism
Title | Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism PDF eBook |
Author | Jasmin Hristov |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2016-11-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780745337005 |
Why extreme violence is a necessity for capitalist accumulation to occur in Colombia and beyond
Capital Accumulation and State Violence in the Third World
Title | Capital Accumulation and State Violence in the Third World PDF eBook |
Author | Chossudovsky, Michel |
Publisher | Faculté des sciences sociales, Dép. de science économique, Université d'Ottawa |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Capital |
ISBN |
Violence and Social Orders
Title | Violence and Social Orders PDF eBook |
Author | Douglass Cecil North |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2009-02-26 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0521761735 |
This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.