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IN/SECURITY IN COLOMBIA

New Approaches to
Conflict Analysis

Series editor: Peter Lawler, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Department of Government, University of Manchester

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Until recently, the study of conflict and conflict resolution remained comparatively immune to broad developments in social and political theory. When the changing nature and locus of large-scale conflict in the post-Cold War era is also taken into account, the case for a reconsideration of the fundamentals of conflict analysis and conflict resolution becomes all the more stark.

New Approaches to Conflict Analysis promotes the development of new theoretical insights and their application to concrete cases of large-scale conflict, broadly defined. The series intends not to ignore established approaches to conflict analysis and conflict resolution, but to contribute to the reconstruction of the field through a dialogue between orthodoxy and its contemporary critics. Equally, the series reflects the contemporary porosity of intellectual borderlines rather than simply perpetuating rigid boundaries around the study of conflict and peace. New Approaches to Conflict Analysis seeks to uphold the normative commitment of the fields founders yet also recognises that the moral impulse to research is properly part of its subject matter. To these ends, the series is comprised of the highest quality work of scholars drawn from throughout the international academic community, and from a wide range of disciplines within the social sciences.

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In/security in Colombia

Writing political identities in the Democratic Security Policy

JOSEFINA ECHAVARRIA A.

Copyright Josefina Echavarria A. 2010

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Contents

Preface

This book offers a political reading of how the in/security discourse of the Colombian government, named the Democratic Security Policy (DSP), does the identities of state, nationals and others. I investigate how, by naming the danger of narco-terrorism as posing a vital threat to the state and its people, the DSP creates ideal identity categories. Subjects are hailed as constituents of these categories via multiple practices that summon them to occupy the positions of a strong sovereign state, good nationals united in the front against narco-terrorism and terrorists, respectively. This book examines the Colombian case study by referring to critical security insights that ask unauthorised questions (Dillon, 1996) about the violence prompted when ambiguous, fluid and changing identities are forced to fit neat pictures of seemingly coherent and unproblematic referent objects and subjects of in/security discourses (Stern, 2005).

Following Stuart Hall (1996a), I understand the process of identification as an imperfect articulation, which requires that subjects perform their identities. Looking for different ways in which disparate subjects reinforce, contest or resist the logic of in/security, I analyse the responses and provocations that are expressed in the discourses of the guerrillas known as the FARC-EP, the nonviolent plan of the Province of Antioquia and the nonviolent movement of the indigenous group Paeces del Cauca. My intention is to underscore the multiple ways in which others, the state itself and nationals react to, reinforce or contest the logic of in/security that the DSP inscribes. By looking at these diverse responses, I intend to underscore how the grammars of harm of discourses on safety/danger (Stern, 2005) can be reproduced or disrupted in marginal settings.

My contention is that by producing fixed, coherent and secure identities, state and non-state political violence is legitimised. In the name of in/security, spaces and times for many peaces (Dietrich and Stzl, 2006) and politics are closed down, since encountering and connecting with others can bring about unknown possibilities for becoming something/somebody different from the fixed subjects of the DSP. In this way, I attempt to show that the writing of in/security implies the writing of peace and war and attendant notions of identity. Ultimately, writing in/security is about political imaginaries (Campbell, 1998).

The concrete forms in which these concepts and practices inform each other in the Colombian conflict offer insights into the often-violent relations that render the pursuit of both peace and security so very problematic. Hence, in the last section, I venture into presenting a collection of international relations (IR), politics and peace studies readings that embrace the impossibility of securing subjectivities by accepting fragility and vulnerability. These readings call for the opening of possibilities for becoming, rather than being (Hall, 1996a), and for recognising uncertainty as fundamental to experiencing more peaceful ways of relating to each other. In short, this final section considers calls for imagining otherwise (Butler, 2004).

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