ISBN:
9781501709753
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource
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1 b&w halftone, 1 b&w line drawing, 6 maps, 10 charts
DDC:
303.609861
Keywords:
Geschichte 1986-2012
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Forced migration History
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Political persecution History
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Political violence History
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Vertreibung
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Gewalt
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Politik
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Kolumbien
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Electronic books History
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Kolumbien
;
Gewalt
;
Politik
;
Vertreibung
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Geschichte 1986-2012
Abstract:
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
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Jun 2018)
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In English
DOI:
10.7591/9781501709753
DOI:
10.7591/9781501709753
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9781501709753
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
