Publications & Other Outputs
Publications & Other Outputs
Refereed Journal Articles
Hristov, J. (2026). Land, Blood, and Resistance: State Violence against the National Front of Struggle for Socialism (FNLS) in Mexico. Humboldt Journal of Social Relations 1 (48) [in press].
Hristov, J. and Arias, J.C. (2023). Beyond the Politics of Love: The Challenges of Paramilitary Violence and the Land Question for Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro. Studies in Political Economy, 104(1), 55-68.
Hristov, J. (2021). Pro-Capitalist Violence and the Great Wave of Dispossession: Armed Actors and Agrarian Conflicts in Colombia, Mexico, and Honduras. Sociology of Development 7(2), 129-158.
Hristov, J. and Spring, K. (2021). Violencia paramilitar en sectores económicos clave en Honduras: el brazo violento del «desarrollo». Estudios Criticos del Desarrollo 11(21): 199-245.
Coates, R., Colombo, E., Dores, A., Hernandez, S., and Hristov, J. (2018). Teaching Globalization Globally: the Experience of Globalization, Social Justice and Human Rights course. Islamic Perspective: Journal of Islamic Studies and Humanities 19, 83-99.
Hristov, J. (2017). Guerrillas, Marxists, Terrorists, or Trouble-Makers? Doing Sociology in High-Risk Violent Conflict Areas. Canadian Review of Sociology, 54(3), 375-377. Coates, R., Colombo, E., Dores, A., Hernandez, S., and Hristov, J. (2018). Teaching Globalization Globally: the Experience of Globalization, Social Justice and Human Rights course. Islamic Perspective: Journal of Islamic Studies and Humanities 19, 83-99.
Hristov, J. (2010). Self-Defense Forces, Warlords or Criminal Gangs? Towards a New Conceptualization of Paramilitarism in Colombia. Labour, Capital and Society, 43(2), 13-56.
Hristov J. (2009). Social Class and Ethnicity/Race in the Dynamics of Indigenous Peasant Movements: the Case of the CRIC in Colombia. Latin American Perspectives, 36 (4), 41-63.
Hristov, J. (2005). Freedom and Democracy or Hunger and Terror: Neoliberalism and Militarization in Latin America. Social Justice, 32 (2), 89-119.
Hristov, J. (2005). Indigenous Struggles for Land and Culture in Cauca (Colombia). Journal of Peasant Studies, 32 (1), 88-117.
Hristov, J. (2004). Land, Blood and Capital Accumulation: Latin America’s Eternal War on the Poor. Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, 1 (3), 4-19.
Book Chapters
Hristov, J. (2026). “‘We Are Being Hunted’: Counterinsurgency as Necropolitics in Honduras and Mexico” in Chulio, N., Peate, A. & Gomez, C.T. (Eds.). Necropolitics and Mass Violence: Power, Death, and Resistance in Global Perspective. Leeds: Emerald Publishing [forthcoming December 2026].
Hristov, J. and Bushra, L. (2022). Theorizing Non-State Armed Actors in the Era of Economic Globalization: Beyond the Criminal and the Terrorist. In Hristov, J., Sprague, J., and Tauss, A. (Eds.). Paramilitary Groups and the State under Globalization: Political Violence, Elites, and Security. London: Routledge.
Hristov, J. and Spring, K. (2022). Paramilitarism in Progress: the War against Social Movements from Below in Honduras. In Hristov, J., Sprague, J., and Tauss, A. (Eds.). Paramilitary Groups and the State under Globalization: Political Violence, Elites, and Security. London: Routledge.
Golinger, E., Hristov, J. and Tauss, A. (2022). Transnational Connections: Right-wing Violence in Venezuela as a Strategy to Restore Political Hegemony. In Hristov, J., Sprague, J., and Tauss, A. (Eds.). Paramilitary Groups and the State under Globalization: Political Violence, Elites, and Security. London: Routledge.
Hristov, J. (2020). Pro-Capitalist Violence and Globalization: Lessons from Latin America. In Hosseini, S.A.H., Goodman, J., Motta, S.C., & Gills, B.K. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Transformative Global Studies. London: Routledge.
Hristov, J. (2020). Globalization, Militarization, and Repression in Latin America. In
Caliskan, G. (Ed.), Globalizing Gender, Gendering Globalization: Post-Colonial
Perspectives. Toronto: Oxford University Press.
Hristov, J. (2020). The Capital-State Nexus and its War on Women. In Caliskan, G.
(Ed.), Globalizing Gender, Gendering Globalization: Post-Colonial Perspectives. Toronto:
Toronto: Oxford University Press Canada.
Hristov, J. (2019). Armed Actors, the Commodification of Women and the Destruction of Childhood: Understanding the Connections between Predatory Sexuality and the Violence of Capital in Colombia. In Cohn, S. and Blumberg, R. (Eds.), Gender and Development: Economic Basis of Women's Power. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Databases
Human Rights and Political Violence Monitor of Honduras
Presents quantitative and qualitative data on human rights violations related to political violence nation-wide in Honduras for the period between 2009-2019.
Violence against the Plataforma Agraria Peasant Movement in Bajo Aguan, Honduras
Documents incidences of violent acts and threats of violence carried out by state and non-state actors against the Plataforma Agraria peasant movement of the Aguan Valley, Honduras for the period 2013-2025. Publicly available here.
Other Publications
Jimenez Argumosa, P. and Hristov, J. (2021). La Violencia Política, Paramilitar y Pro-Capitalista Asola a Honduras. El Salto
Hristov, J. and Spring, K. (2021). Entre Palma, Plomo, y Policías: Paramilitarismo, el Brazo Armado del Desarrollo. Avispa Midia.
Hristov, J. (2016). The Colombian Peace Accords: From Repression to Concession to the Possibility for Real Change or Betrayal. The Pluto Press Blog.
Hristov, J. (2016). Парамілітарне насильство, капітал і держава в умовах глобалізації [Paramilitary Violence, Capital and the State under Globalization]. Spil'ne/Commons: Journal of Social Criticism. (Nov 2016, Ukraine).
Hristov, J. (2009). Legalizing the Illegal: Paramilitarism in Colombia’s ‘Post-Paramilitary’ Era. NACLA Report on the Americas, 42 (4), July-Aug.
Interviews Conducted by Dr. Jasmin Hristov
Interview with Honduran journalist Jairo Lopez October 21, 2018.
Watch on YouTube here.
Interview with Honduran journalist Bartolo Fuentes October 20, 2018.
Watch on YouTube here.
Interviews and Other Events with Dr. Jasmin Hristov
Olsen, J. (2021, Nov 6). In Honduras Land Battles, Paramilitaries Infiltrate Local Groups, then Kill their Leaders. Includes excerpts from interview with Jasmin Hristov.
Davis, A. (2020, Nov 23). A Theory of Violence. Trek Magazine.
Laborda, L. (2020, Aug 3). La Pandemia Exacerbo la Violacion de los Derechos Humanos. RCI – Radio Canada International.
Global Journalist TV Program. (2015, Oct.15). Colombia’s Deal with the FARC.
Watch on YouTube here.
Peppe, M. (2015, Oct.5). Misrepresentation of the Colombian Conflict. Counterpunch.
Alberto, L. (2009, October) Sangre y Capital: La Paramilitarizacion de Colombia. Entrevista Parte I.
Watch on YouTube here.
Alberto, L. (2009, October). Sangre y Capital: La Paramilitarizacion de Colombia. Entrevista Parte II
Watch on YouTube here.
(2008, Dec 3) Legalizing Terror: Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. Panel with Jasmin Hristov, Todd Gordon, and Iliam Burbano.
Watch on YouTube here.