Dedication
Acknowledgements
Prologue
List of Diagrams, Graphs, Maps, and Tables
List of Acronyms
Preface
1. An Overview of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia-People's Army (FARC-EP): A History of Radicalism in the
Countryside
2. Ejército del Pueblo: A Sociological Analysis of Radical Social
Change
3. Theorizing Revolution: The Importance of Colombia
4. Colombia's Rural Political Economy in Historical and
Contemporary Perspective
5. The Political Economy of Coca in Colombia, Past and Present
6. Dominant Class Reactionism: Far-Right Politics and
Paramilitarism
7. The FARC-EP's Relation to (Pre)Revolutionary Social Change
8. Prospects for the Future: From 'Dual Power' to Taking Power
Bibliography
Index
James J. Brittain is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Acadia University. He is also the co-founder of the Atlantic Canada-Colombia Research Group. James' primary research and teaching interests include the praxis of social change in Latin America, the relevance of classical social theory in contemporary geopolitics. He is the author of Revolutionary Social Change in Colombia (Pluto, 2009).
'A theoretically and empirically rich analysis of the insurgency
and its historical origins'
*Dr Doug Stokes, Senior Lecturer in International Relations,
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.*
'A valuable study of the causes, meaning and significance of the
armed insurgency in Colombia. It [presents] a welcome break from
the hegemony of the apolitical discourses that have dominated the
scholarship on Colombia's conflict'
*Nazih Richani, Director of Latin American Studies at Kean
University, and Associate Professor of Political Science.*
'Based on extensive first-hand research in guerrilla-controlled
regions, Brittain chronicles the origins, development and
achievements of Colombia's FARC-EP while dispelling many of the
myths surrounding the rebel group'
*Terry Gibbs is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the
Director of the Centre for International Studies at Cape Breton
University in Nova Scotia, Canada.*
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