In/security in Colombia: Writing Political Identities in the Democratic Security Policy
Josefina A. Echavarria
Abstract
Based on geo- and biopolitical analyses, this book reconsiders how security policies and practices legitimate state and non-state violence in the Colombian conflict, and uses the case study of the official Democratic Security Policy (DSP) to examines how security discourses write the political identities of state, self and others. It claims that the DSP delimits politics, the political, and the imaginaries of peace and war through conditioning the possibilities for identity formation. The book offers an innovative application of a large theoretical framework on the performative character of se ... More
Keywords: security policies, non-state violence, Colombian conflict, Democratic Security Policy, security discourses, DSP, identity formation, security problematique, biopolitical analyses, geopolitical analyses
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780719079856 |
| Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: July 2012 | DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719079856.001.0001 |
