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Since its independence in the nineteenth century, the South American state of Colombia has been shaped by decades of bloody political violence. In The Para-State, Aldo Civico draws on interviews with paramilitary death squads and drug lords to provide a cultural interpretation of the country's history of violence and state control. Between 2003 and 2008, Civico gained unprecedented access to some of Colombia's most notorious leaders of the death squads. He also conducted interviews with the victims of paramilitary, with drug kingpins, and with vocal public supporters of the paramilitary groups. Drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari, this riveting work demonstrates how the paramilitaries have in essence become a war machine deployed by the Colombian state to control and maintain its territory and political legitimacy.

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"I'm not perfect," Mateo confessed. "Nobody is. But I try." Secure the Soul shuttles between the life of Mateo, a born-again ex-gang member in Guatemala and the gang prevention programs that work so hard to keep him alive. Along the way, this poignantly written ethnography uncovers the Christian underpinnings of Central American security. In the streets of Guatemala City-amid angry lynch mobs, overcrowded prisons, and paramilitary death squads-millions of dollars empower church missions, faith-based programs, and seemingly secular security projects to prevent gang violence through the practice of Christian piety. With Guatemala increasingly defined by both God and gangs, Secure the Soul details an emerging strategy of geopolitical significance: regional security by way of good Christian living.

Gang prevention --- Church and social problems --- Christianity and social problems --- Social problems and Christianity --- Social problems and the church --- Social problems --- Gang intervention --- Gangs --- Intervention, Gang --- Prevention of gangs --- Crime prevention --- Prevention --- Gang prevention -- Guatemala -- Guatemala. --- Church and social problems -- Guatemala -- Guatemala. --- anthropology. --- born again. --- central america. --- central american security. --- christian piety. --- christianity. --- church missions. --- crime. --- criminology. --- death squads. --- ethnographic research. --- ex gang member. --- faith based programs. --- gang prevention programs. --- gang violence. --- gangs. --- geopolitical. --- god and religion. --- good christian living. --- governmentality. --- guatemala. --- incarceration. --- life and death. --- lynch mobs. --- overcrowded prisons. --- redemption. --- regional security. --- religion. --- religious influences. --- secular security projects. --- social suffering. --- spiritual.

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Niemandsland is the untold story of the largest and most enduring of the unoccupied enclaves that survived after Germany's invasion and occupation by Allied forces in 1945. Sandwiched between American and Red Army lines, the 500,000 inhabitants were cut off from the outside world and left to fend for themselves in the face of crippling shortages of food, fuel and housing. Gareth Pritchard charts how groups of Communists, Socialists and antifascists came together to form 'antifascist' committees which seized power and set about restoring order, ensuring the supply of food and essential services and hunting down, disarming and arresting fugitive Nazis. This is not only a fascinating history in its own right but it also sheds important new light on the fate of Germany after 1945. Only in Niemandsland do we see what happened when the currents of post-Nazi German politics were allowed to flow freely, unimpeded by Allied intervention.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Anti-fascist movements --- Vigilance committees --- Community policing --- Crime prevention --- Crime --- Prevention of crime --- Public safety --- Community-based policing --- Community-oriented policing --- COP (Community-oriented policing) --- Neighborhood policing --- Policing, Community --- Proximity policing --- Police --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Death squads --- Anti-fascist resistance --- Underground, Anti-fascist --- Fascism --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Social aspects --- Prevention --- Government policy --- Citizen participation --- Erzgebirge (Czech Republic and Germany) --- Erzgebirge (Czechoslovakia and Germany) --- Krušné hory (Czech Republic and Germany) --- Krušnohoří (Czech Republic and Germany) --- Ore Mountains (Czech Republic and Germany) --- History --- Arts and Humanities --- Antifascist movements --- Social movements