Jasmin Hristov

Dr. Jasmin Hristov is a global sociologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Guelph Institute of Development Studies (GIDS), University of Guelph, Canada.

Her current research explores the intersection of economic globalization and violence – more specifically how violence carried out by state and non-state armed actors has been instrumentalized for the purpose of facilitating land acquisition by large-scale industries and repressing social movements that challenge neoliberal development policies in the Global South.

Jasmin’s broader expertise encompasses the areas of state violence, irregular armed groups, neoliberalism, land conflicts, and social movements, with a geographic concentration on Latin America. Interdisciplinary in its approach and outputs, her research contributes to the fields of political violence, social movements, and development studies. Jasmin’s broader expertise encompasses the areas of state violence, irregular armed groups, neoliberalism, land conflicts, and social movements, with a geographic concentration on Latin America. Interdisciplinary in its approach and outputs, her research contributes to the fields of political violence, social movements, and development studies.

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A Theory of Pro-Capitalist Violence

There is an abundance of empirical evidence showing a global rise in a type of violence carried out by states or private armed groups with the complicity of states, against civilian populations, for the purpose of securing access to resources and silencing dissent. To capture this type of violence that constitutes a coercive strategy integral to economic development projects in the Global South, Jasmin has developed the theory of pro-capitalist violence which builds upon 15 years of extensive empirical work across various Latin American countries. The theory

underscores the synergistic relationship between violence and legal mechanisms. The concept also speaks more broadly to the nature of the political counterpart of global capital by demonstrating that that violence is not incidental but rather foundational to how nation-states manage threats to the security of large-scale capital in the era of globalization.

Scholarship

Jasmin is the single author of Paramilitarism and Neoliberalism: Violent Systems of Capital Accumulation in Colombia and Beyond (Pluto, 2014) and Blood and Capital: the Paramilitarization of Colombia (Ohio University Press, 2009). She is the lead editor of Paramilitary Groups and the State Under Globalization: Political Violence, Elites, and Security (Routledge 2022).

Her journal articles are featured in: Sociology of Development; Studies in Political Economy; Journal of Peacebuilding and Development; Journal of Peasant Studies; Latin American Perspectives; Labor, Capital and Society; Social Justice; Canadian Review of Sociology; and Journal of Islamic Studies and Humanities. She has published various book chapters in: Paramilitary Groups and the State under Globalization; Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies; Gendering Globalization, Globalizing Gender: Post-Colonial Perspectives; and Gender and Development: Economic Basis of Women's Power.

Transformative, Global, and Humanist Principles

Jasmin’s research and scholarship are intended to serve as an infrastructure of empowerment by amplifying marginalized and excluded voices and supporting emancipatory social justice-oriented agendas.

Aligned with the Following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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