"Conventional wisdom portrays war zones as chaotic and anarchic. In reality, however, they are often orderly. This work investigates theoretically and empirically the emergence and functioning of social order in conflict zones. By theorizing the interaction between combatants an…
"Conventional wisdom portrays war zones as chaotic and anarchic. In reality, however, they are often orderly. This work investigates theoretically and empirically the emergence and functioning of social order in conflict zones. By theorizing the interaction between combatants an…
Este libro pretende describir y explicar las condiciones mediante las cuales Colombia consiguió anudar sólidamente su economía al mercado mundial convirtiéndose en un importante monoexportador de un producto típico de la agricultura tropical, el café, y al mismo tiempo señalar l…
Looks at development of Afro-Colombian communities after passage of a 1991 law granting cultural rights and collective land ownership to the communities, arguing that social movements are often partially co-opted by market or state, but then use state res
The author argues that neoliberal development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways. She analyzes the black social movements that emerged from the political and economic changes in Colombia's Pacific lowlands, or Chocó region, in the 1990…