Bogotá MMX, 200 años después

To date, the growing body of literature about Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) has focused primarily on questions of policy design. It has widely neglected the beneficiaries of policy and their lives beyond DDR programmes. The present study intends to balance this shortcoming by systematically describing the individual perspective of ex-combatants. Through a series of 62 interviews with former Colombian paramilitaries, the themes that are central to their lives are identified. The selection of the interviewees and the interview analysis draw on grounded theory. The goal of...

"Innovative volume, which begins with precolumbian Muiscas and ends in 1940s, inserts history of chicha drinking within broader legislative and medical history of Colombia. Relationship between hygiene, nation-building, urban expansion, and growth of popular culture is explored within this framework"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

“Relaciones de conocimiento centro-periferia: hegemonía, contribuciones locales e hibridación”, “Migración internacional de colombianas en la Ciudad de México: transnacionalismo y globalización”; “La Unión Europea como actor global del soft al hard power: ¿una potencia civil?; “El papel de los actores internos en los procesos de integración: el caso de la CAN”; “Secutirización en tiempos de globalización: elementos para el análisis en el área Andina”; y “Colombia y el nuevo panorama de la integración regional”, son algunos de los temas que aborda esta obra...

Monograph on the history of data collecting in Colombia from the pre-colombian era to 1978 - discusses statistical computing techniques, types of census and surveys carried out, data collecting through the ages, and describes functions of the national level statistical service, etc. Bibliography pp. 589 to 594.