The Frontier Effect : : State Formation and Violence in Colombia /

The Frontier Effect : : State Formation and Violence in Colombia / / Teo Ballvé.

In The Frontier Effect, Teo Ballvé challenges the notion that in Urabá, Colombia, the cause of the region's violent history and unruly contemporary condition is the absence of the state. Although he takes this locally oft-repeated claim seriously, he demonstrates in The Frontier Effect that Ura...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Ballvé, Teo,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.) :; 13 b&w halftones, 3 b&w line drawings, 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Producing the Frontier
  • 2. Turf Wars in Colombia's Red Corner
  • 3. The Paramilitary War of Position
  • 4. Paramilitary Populism: In Defense of the Region
  • 5. The Masquerades of Grassroots Development
  • 6. The Postconflict Interregnum
  • 7. Urabá: A Sea of Opportunities?
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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