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Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War / Abbey Steele.

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Steele, Abbey [author.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) : 1 b&w halftone, 1 b&w line drawing, 6 maps, 10 chartsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781501709753

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LOC classification:

HN310.Z9

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Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Pseudonyms and Translations -- Unsettling. -- 1. Characterizing and Explaining Wartime Displacement -- 2. The Legacy of Displacement during La Violencia and the Origins of the Contemporary War in Colombia -- 3. The Contemporary Civil War in Colombia, 1986-2012 -- 4. Democratic Reforms and the Emergence of Political Cleansing in Colombia -- 5. Political Cleansing and Resistance in Apartadó -- 6. The Politics of Displacement across Colombia -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- References -- Index

Title is part of eBook package: COR eBook-Package Pilot Project 2017Title is part of eBook package: Cornell Univ. Press eBook-Package Pilot Project 2016-2017Summary: Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War is one of few books available in English to provide an overview of the Colombian civil war and drug war. Abbey Steele draws on her own original field research as well as on Colombian scholars' work in Spanish to provide an expansive view of the country's political conflicts. Steele shows how political reforms in the context of Colombia's ongoing civil war produced unexpected, dramatic consequences: democratic elections revealed Colombian citizens' political loyalties and allowed counterinsurgent armed groups to implement political cleansing against civilians perceived as loyal to insurgents.Combining evidence collected from remote archives, more than two hundred interviews, and quantitative data from the government's displacement registry, Steele connects Colombia's political development and the course of its civil war to purposeful displacement. By introducing the concepts of collective targeting and political cleansing, Steele extends what we already know about patterns of ethnic cleansing to cases where expulsion of civilians from their communities is based on nonethnic traits.

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Democracy and Displacement in Colombia's Civil War is one of few books available in English to provide an overview of the Colombian civil war and drug war. Abbey Steele draws on her own original field research as well as on Colombian scholars' work in Spanish to provide an expansive view of the country's political conflicts. Steele shows how political reforms in the context of Colombia's ongoing civil war produced unexpected, dramatic consequences: democratic elections revealed Colombian citizens' political loyalties and allowed counterinsurgent armed groups to implement political cleansing against civilians perceived as loyal to insurgents.Combining evidence collected from remote archives, more than two hundred interviews, and quantitative data from the government's displacement registry, Steele connects Colombia's political development and the course of its civil war to purposeful displacement. By introducing the concepts of collective targeting and political cleansing, Steele extends what we already know about patterns of ethnic cleansing to cases where expulsion of civilians from their communities is based on nonethnic traits.

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In English.

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