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“Peace cannot cost us our lives”

Narratives of security and discourse surrounding violence

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Article outline
  • Introduction: Murders of ex-guerrillas
  • The FARC, the state, and paramilitaries
  • Security narratives, linguistic anthropology, and discursive strategies
  • Definitely not safe
  • Long-term, systematic extermination of the left
  • Paradoxical (dis)trust in government
  • Concluding discussion[1.1]
  • Notes
  • Author queries
  • Sources
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