The Para-State
Title | The Para-State PDF eBook |
Author | Aldo Civico |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2015-11-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520288513 |
Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. In The Para-State,ÊAldo Civico draws on interviews with paramilitary death squads and drug lords to provide a cultural interpretation of the countryÕs history of violence and state control. Between 2003 and 2008, Civico gained unprecedented access to some of ColombiaÕs most notorious leaders of the death squads. He also conducted interviews with the victims of paramilitary, with drug kingpins, and with vocal public supporters of the paramilitary groups. Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, this riveting work demonstrates how the paramilitaries have in essence become a war machine deployed by the Colombian state to control and maintain its territory and political legitimacy.
The State of Pará
Title | The State of Pará PDF eBook |
Author | Pará (Brazil : State) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Chicago. World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 |
ISBN |
The Para-State
Title | The Para-State PDF eBook |
Author | Aldo Civico |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2015-11-24 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520288521 |
Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. In The Para-State, Aldo Civico draws on interviews with paramilitary death squads and drug lords to provide a cultural interpretation of the country’s history of violence and state control. Between 2003 and 2008, Civico gained unprecedented access to some of Colombia’s most notorious leaders of the death squads. He also conducted interviews with the victims of paramilitary, with drug kingpins, and with vocal public supporters of the paramilitary groups. Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, this riveting work demonstrates how the paramilitaries have in essence become a war machine deployed by the Colombian state to control and maintain its territory and political legitimacy.
Para-States and Medical Science
Title | Para-States and Medical Science PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Wenzel Geissler |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2015-04-07 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 082237627X |
In Para-States and Medical Science, P. Wenzel Geissler and the contributors examine how medicine and public health in Africa have been transformed as a result of economic and political liberalization and globalization, intertwined with epidemiological and technological changes. The resulting fragmented medical science landscape is shaped and sustained by transnational flows of expertise and resources. NGOs, universities, pharmaceutical companies and other nonstate actors now play a significant role in medical research and treatment. But as the contributors to this volume argue, these groups have not supplanted the primacy of the nation-state in Africa. Although not necessarily stable or responsive, national governments remain crucial in medical care, both as employers of health care professionals and as sources of regulation, access, and – albeit sometimes counterintuitively - trust for their people. “The state” has morphed into the “para-state” — not a monolithic and predictable source of sovereignty and governance, but a shifting, and at times ephemeral, figure. Tracing the emergence of the “global health” paradigm in Africa in the treatment of HIV, malaria, and leprosy, this book challenges familiar notions of African statehood as weak or illegitimate by elaborating complex new frameworks of governmentality that can be simultaneously functioning and dysfunctional. Contributors. Uli Beisel, Didier Fassin, P. Wenzel Geissler, Rene Gerrets, Ann Kelly, Guillaume Lachenal, John Manton, Lotte Meinert, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Branwyn Poleykett, Susan Reynolds Whyte
Facts that You Should Know about the State of Pará
Title | Facts that You Should Know about the State of Pará PDF eBook |
Author | Instituto de Desenvolvimento Econômico, Social e Ambiental do Pará |
Publisher | |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Pará (Brazil : State) |
ISBN |
The State of State Reforms in Latin America
Title | The State of State Reforms in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Eduardo Lora |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 2006-10-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0821365762 |
Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or 'second generation' reforms. 'The State of State Reform in Latin America' reviews and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major areas of institutional reform: a. political institutions and the state organization; b. fiscal institutions, such as budget, tax and decentralization institutions; c. public institutions in charge of sectoral economic policies (financial, industrial, and infrastructure); and d. social sector institutions (pensions, social protection, and education). In each of these areas, the authors summarize the reform objectives, describe and measure their scope, assess the main outcomes, and identify the obstacles for implementation, especially those of an institutional nature.
Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics
Title | Bulletin of the International Bureau of the American Republics PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 746 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | America |
ISBN |