Criminality, political power and conflict

Introduction: Criminality, political power, and conflict: Critical perspectives - Jos© A. Guti©rrez and Francisco Guti©rrez-San­n

1 Beyond Elias and Tilly: Historical sociology, crime and organised violence - Siniša Maleševic

2 The politics of criminality: The state, opium, and armed groups in Burma - John Buchanan

3 "I have created an idealism": Explaining public political discourses of the PCC and other organized criminal groups in Latin America - Reynell Badillo Sarmiento

4 Inside the Israel complex: The rise of narco-Pentecostalismin Rio de Janeiro - Kristina Hinz and Doriam Borges

5 Pro-state armed groups in Northern Ireland: Rethinking the position of 'loyalist' armed groups in Northern Ireland - John Doyle

6 Killing criminals: Lethal targeting by the paramilitaries in the Colombian civil war - Francisco Guti©rrez-San­n

7 Greedy peacemakers: Post-FARC-EP trajectories from political crime to politicised common crime - Jos© A. Guti©rrez

8 Resisting and existing with criminalisation: The case of Colombian artisanal and small-scale gold producers - Christoph Kaufmann

9 The necropolitics of criminalisation in the Colombian War on Drugs - Irene V©lez-Torres and Chiara Chiavaroli

10 Amalgamation of special forces and organized crime in Serbia: Curbing the democratic transition after the downfall of Slobodan Miloševic - Kosta Nikolic, Vladimir Petrovic and Danilo Mandic.

11 A heavy hand and a weak arm: Security strategies, political confrontation and state scarcity in Venezuela - Guillermo Sardi and Fernando Garlin-Politis.

12 From miner­a comunitaria to illegal mining: Indigenous territories and mining formalization in Peruvian Amazonia - Gisselle Benites

13 Bandits, poetry, and cartooning: A playful visual anthropology - Fernando Garlin-Politis

Concluding remarks - Christian Olsson