Criminality, Political Power and Conflict
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historical sociology
Hybrid Conflicts
Illicit Economies
Intra-State Conflicts
Legitimacy
Norbert Elias
organised violence
Political Crime
Political Power
separatism
smuggling
Social Power
State Power
state-making
violence
war
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- ISBN 9781526181831
- Weight: 709g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 16 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The departure point of this book is the understanding of politics and criminality as two historically differentiated domains of human activity that are different but interrelated, and often co-constitutive and overlapping. In everyday political and domestic life, distinguishing between what is political and what is criminal is achieved through different processes and at different territorial levels. These liminal and overlapping areas between the political and the criminal are highly contested spaces. This book argues against ahistorically drawing a separating line between political armed mobilisation and economic criminality. Each chapter shows that not only insurgents, separatists and other political rebels but also the State and elites can, and generally must (because war waging is not cheap), engage in different forms of economic criminality as a result of their political status. In no longer separating criminality and politics, this book is able to offer new concepts with which to analyse civil war, political power and criminality.
José A. Gutiérrez is lecturer at the Centre for Applied Human Rights (CAHR) at the University of York.
Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín is lecturer at the Institute for Political Sudies and International Relations (IEPRI) at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá.
