Genocide Geopolitics and Transnational Networks

<p>This volume seeks to uncover and discuss the links between genocide geopolitics and transnational networks. By studying the destruction of the Union Patrotica (UP) in Colombia - a process usually regarded as one of the extreme by-products of the Colombian armed conflict- through the lens of genocide studies Gomez-Suarez challenges mainstream international relations genocide and Colombian armed conflict studies. </p><p>Moving beyond the analysis of the Colombian case the book offers a broader interdisciplinary theoretical framework that also attends to transnational relations of perpetrators and resisters and the political economy of affective-dispositions for mapping genocidal conjuncture. Methodologically the text aims to present a re-interpretation of what constitutes genocide beyond its legal definition and turn towards its political and ethical dimensions to create a conceptual framework in which genocide appears to turn ever more into a decentralized network of various actors that contributed to a genocidal mentality which ultimately enable the destruction of the civil society networks. </p><p>This work will be an important contribution to both the debates on genocide and international relations and the study of global connectivities.</p>