La chicha, una bebida fermentada a través de la historia

"As the Samper government was rocked by allegations of drug-related corruption in the presidential campaign of 1994, Colombia's endemic crisis of governability, violence, and political participation took a dramatic turn for the worse. Moreover, Colombia/US bilateral relations degenerated into mutual accusations and recriminations. In this book, several of Colombia's leading political analysts assess this crisis and its implications for the maintainance of political stability and consolidation of democracy"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

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...

El libro Discursos de la guerra en Colombia 1998-2005 es el resultado de una investigación realizada por Victoria Elena González Mantilla, en el marco de la tesis para obtener el título de doctora en ciencias sociales. A partir de la elección de un corpus de 28 registros producido por tres actores discursivos: las AUC, las FARC y representantes de los gobiernos de Andrés Pastrana y Álvaro Uribe Vélez durante dos procesos de paz, la autora analiza los registros elegidos a la luz de los patrones de la historicidad en el análisis crítico del discurso. Lo anterior le permite observar,...

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