Between the guerrillas and the state
Subtitle: the cocalero movement, citizenship, and identity in the Colombian Amazon
By: María Clemencia Ramírez ; translated by Andy Klatt
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780822350002; 9780822350156
Subjects: Guerrillas; Paramilitary forces; State-sponsored terrorism; Coca; Cocaine industry; Drug control
Work titles: Entre el estado y la guerrilla
Notes: English translation, revised from first Spanish ed.: Entre el estado y la guerrilla (Bogotá : Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia, Colciencias, 2001).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: History of colonization, marginalization, and the state : guerrillas, drug trafficking, and paramilitarism in the Colombian Amazon; title: Coca and the war on drugs in Putumayo : illegality, armed conflict, and the politics of time and space; title: Turning civic movements into a social movement : antecedents of the cocalero social movement; title: The cocalero social movement : stigmatization and the politics of recognition and identity; title: Negotiations with the central government : clashing visions over the "right to have rights"; title: Competing states or competing governments? : an analysis of local state formation in a conflict-ridden zone; title: From social to political leadership : gaining visibility as civil society in the midst of increased armed conflict; title: Plan Colombia and the depoliticization of citizenship in Putumayo.