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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: María Clemencia Ramírez , Andy KlattPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780822350002ISBN 10: 0822350009 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 01 July 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations xiii Introduction 1 1. History of Colonization, Marginalization, and the State: Guerrillas, Drug Trafficking, and Paramilitarism in the Colombian Amazon 21 2. Coca and the War on Drugs in Putumayo: Illegality, Armed Conflict, and the Politics of Time and Space 54 3. Turning Civic Movements into a Social Movement: Antecedents of the Cocalero Social Movement 86 4. The Cocalero Social Movement: Stigmatization and the Politics of Recognition and Identity 110 5. Negotiations with the Central Government: Clashing Visions over the ""Right to Have Rights"" 134 6. Competing States or Competing Governments? An Analysis of Local State Formation in a Conflict-Ridden Zone 167 7. From Social to Political Leadership: Gaining Visibility as Civil Society in the Midst of Increased Armed Conflict 183 8. Plan Colombia and the Depoliticization of Citizenship in Putumayo 214 Epilogue 233 Appendixes 239 Notes 254 References 283 Index 297"ReviewsBrimming over with ethnographic and historical insights, this outstanding book speaks to central questions about social movements, violence, democratization, and the implementation of neoliberal policies in extremely poor regions. Maria Clemencia Ramirez looks at a grassroots social movement brought about by unlikely actors, rural farmers, known as cocaleros, who grow and process coca (the main ingredient in cocaine), in order to survive. The cocaleros clamoured for attention from a nearly absent state, which dismissed them, demonizing them as criminals. The irony is unmistakable, for the cocaleros' claims-making deployed rhetorics coming straight out of neoliberal discourses that speak of citizen responsibility, participatory democracy, and self-actualization. Between the Guerrillas and the State is a brilliant study of neo-colonialism at work in a very violent section of southern Colombia Jean E. Jackson, co-editor of Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America Between the Guerrillas and the State is a brilliant study of neo-colonialism at work in a very violent section of southern Colombia Jean E. Jackson, co-editor of Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America Between the Guerrillas and the State is a must-read for those hoping to make sense of the Colombian quagmire. One of that country's most prominent anthropologists, Maria Clemencia Ramirez has a keen ethnographic sensibility and a deep knowledge of the social dynamics of the Colombian Amazon. Her book opens a window onto the complexities of the Colombian conflict in a way that few English-language publications have. Joanne Rappaport, author of Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia A meticulous account of how coca growing plays out in the labyrinth of southern Colombia, this book, by a seasoned Colombian anthropologist, illuminates the plight of the peasant no less than the double-talk promulgated by the unwinnable War on Drugs. oMichael Taussig, Class of 1933 Professor, Columbia University Between the Guerrillas and the State is a must-read for those hoping to make sense of the Colombian quagmire. One of that country's most prominent anthropologists, Maria Clemencia Ramirez, has a keen ethnographic sensibility and a deep knowledge of the social dynamics of the Colombian Amazon. Her book opens a window onto the complexities of the Colombian conflict in a way that few English-language publications have. -Joanne Rappaport, author of Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia A meticulous account of how coca growing plays out in the labyrinth of southern Colombia, this book, by a seasoned Colombian anthropologist, illuminates the plight of the peasant no less than the double-talk promulgated by the unwinnable War on Drugs. -Michael Taussig, Class of 1933 Professor, Columbia University Brimming over with ethnographic and historical insights, this outstanding book speaks to central questions about social movements, violence, democratization, and the implementation of neoliberal policies in extremely poor regions. Maria Clemencia Ramirez looks at a grassroots social movement brought about by unlikely actors, rural farmers known as cocaleros, who grow and process coca (the main ingredient in cocaine) in order to survive. The cocaleros clamored for attention from a nearly absent state, which dismissed them, demonizing them as criminals. The irony is unmistakable, for the cocaleros' claims-making deployed rhetorics coming straight out of neoliberal discourses that speak of citizen responsibility, participatory democracy, and self-actualization. Between the Guerrillas and the State is a brilliant study of neocolonialism at work in a very violent part of southern Colombia. -Jean E. Jackson, co-editor of Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America It is refreshing to read accounts of grassroots resistance to the bullying of national governments that regard citizens as obstacles... This compelling book makes a valuable contribution to the study of social movements while providing a nuanced understanding of what is really at stake when politicians in countries such as Colombia uncritically accept the narratives and agenda mouthed incessantly by their northern paymasters. The Latin American Review of Books Between the Guerrillas and the State is...a rich and much-needed addition to our understanding of contemporary Colombia. -- Robert Karl Hispanic American Historical Review Between the Guerrillas and the State constitutes an insightful reminder that the 'political world' is rich with local and cultural meanings that are usually ignored in debates about public policy. -- Ingrid Bolivar EIAL In Between the Guerrillas and the State, Maria Clemencia Ramirez has written an excellent analytical description of the cocalero movement in the Putumayo province in the Colombian Amazon during the 1990s. -- Carmenza Gallo Contemporary Sociology Brimming over with ethnographic and historical insights, this outstanding book speaks to central questions about social movements, violence, democratization, and the implementation of neoliberal policies in extremely poor regions. Maria Clemencia Ramirez looks at a grassroots social movement brought about by unlikely actors, rural farmers, known as cocaleros, who grow and process coca (the main ingredient in cocaine), in order to survive. The cocaleros clamoured for attention from a nearly absent state, which dismissed them, demonizing them as criminals. The irony is unmistakable, for the cocaleros' claims-making deployed rhetorics coming straight out of neoliberal discourses that speak of citizen responsibility, participatory democracy, and self-actualization. Between the Guerrillas and the State is a brilliant study of neo-colonialism at work in a very violent section of southern Colombia Jean E. Jackson, co-editor of Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America Between the Guerrillas and the State is a brilliant study of neo-colonialism at work in a very violent section of southern Colombia Jean E. Jackson, co-editor of Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America Between the Guerrillas and the State is a must-read for those hoping to make sense of the Colombian quagmire. One of that country's most prominent anthropologists, Maria Clemencia Ramirez has a keen ethnographic sensibility and a deep knowledge of the social dynamics of the Colombian Amazon. Her book opens a window onto the complexities of the Colombian conflict in a way that few English-language publications have. Joanne Rappaport, author of Intercultural Utopias: Public Intellectuals, Cultural Experimentation, and Ethnic Pluralism in Colombia Author InformationMaría Clemencia Ramírez is a Senior Research Associate and a former Director (2005–2007) of the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History in Bogotá. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |