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María Clemencia Ramírez is a Senior Research Associate and a former Director (2005–2007) of the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History in Bogotá.
How small-scale coca growers came together to oppose an eradication campaign by the Colombain government
Acknowledgments ixAbbreviations xiiiIntroduction 11. History of Colonization, Marginalization, and the State: Guerrillas, Drug Trafficking, and Paramilitarism in the Colombian Amazon 212. Coca and the War on Drugs in Putumayo: Illegality, Armed Conflict, and the Politics of Time and Space 543. Turning Civic Movements into a Social Movement: Antecedents of the Cocalero Social Movement 864. The Cocalero Social Movement: Stigmatization and the Politics of Recognition and Identity 1105. Negotiations with the Central Government: Clashing Visions over the "Right to Have Rights" 1346. Competing States or Competing Governments? An Analysis of Local State Formation in a Conflict-Ridden Zone 1677. From Social to Political Leadership: Gaining Visibility as Civil Society in the Midst of Increased Armed Conflict 1838. Plan Colombia and the Depoliticization of Citizenship in Putumayo 214Epilogue 233Appendixes 239Notes 254References 283Index 297