Idola fori y escritos políticos

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...

CONTENIDO: La encuesta folclórica nacional de 1942: perspectivas de historia política y cultural - Sociedades campesinas y transición social en Colombia hacia 1940: una lectura no folclórica de la encuesta folclórica nacional de 1942.

Crecimiento colombiano a largo plazo y el choque de los años treinta - Oferta de mano de obra, productividad y utilidades - Capitalistas, inversión y cambio tecnológico - Aranceles y la economía política de la protección - Devaluación y control de cambios - Factores detrás de la evolución de los precios relativos - Precios relativos, inversión y crecimiento.

"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.