El desplazamiento forzoso en Colombia

"La obra de Francisco Leal Buitrago recoge algunas de las principales contribuciones del sociólogo colombiano. El propósito de esta recopilación es celebrar la contribución de quien ha sido artífice fundamental del desarrollo de las ciencias sociales en Colombia y poner al alcance de las nuevas generaciones de estudiantes y académicos el conocimiento pionero producido por Leal. Los temas que ha tratado -la preocupación por el Estado y el régimen, la seguridad y las sucesivas crisis- son fieles reflejos de las épocas que ha vivido el país; no en vano sus publicaciones aún hoy forman ...

"Exceptional studies on implications of specific reforms which followed adoption of 1991 constitution. Issues include waging of war and right to peace, Andean commercial integration, private property, and political reform"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

"Important contribution to the social history of the New Kingdom and Cartagena de Indias, in particular. Spanish efforts first to comprehend and then control, if not eliminate, indigenous and African forms of alleged magic, whether religious or medical, illustrated imperial imperatives of domination and cultural transformation of subject peoples. First half of book establishes definitions and structures within which confrontation of Spanish and non-Western belief systems clashed. Second half provides a series of illustrative case studies. A glossary and documentary appendices augment the...

The author details her early years in Paris, where she was raised amidst diplomats, literary masters, and artists, and her return to her native Colombia, where, as a senator, she went up against the powerful drug cartels.