Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-107-19317-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer perpetrated primarily by states against their citizens, but by a variety of state and non-state actors struggling to control resources, territories, and populations. This book examines violence at the subnational level to illuminate how practices of violence are embedded within subnational configurations of space and clientelistic networks. In societies shaped by centuries of violence and exclusion, inequality and marginalization prevail at the same time that democratization and neoliberalism have decentralized power to regional and local levels, where democratic and authoritarian practices coexist. Within subnational arenas, unique configurations - of historical legacies, economic structures, identities, institutions, actors, and clientelistic networks - result in particular patterns of violence and vulnerability that are often strikingly different from what is portrayed by aggregate national-level statistics. The chapters of this book examine critical cases from across the region, drawing on new primary data collected in the field to analyze how a range of political actors and institutions shape people's lives and to connect structural and physical forms of violence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hilgers, Tina

Macdonald, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie Politische Geographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: how violence varies: subnational place, identity, and embeddedness Tina Hilgers and Laura Macdonald; 1. Not killer methods: a few things we got wrong when studying violence in Latin America Jean Daudelin; 2. The clientelist bases of police violence in democratic Mexico City Markus-Michael Müller; 3. Of criminal factions, UPPs, and militias: the state of public insecurity in Rio de Janeiro Robert Gay; 4. The garrison community in Kingston: urban violence, policing, private security, and implications for national security and civil rights in Jamaica Yonique Campbell and Colin Clarke; 5. The Salvadorian gang truce (2012–2014): insights on subnational security governance in El Salvador Gaëlle Rivard Piché; 6. Guns and butter: social policy, semi-clientelism, and efforts to reduce violence in Mexico City Lucy Luccisano and Laura Macdonald; 7. Subnational authoritarianism and democratization in Colombia: divergent paths in Cesar and Magdalena Kent Eaton and Juan Diego Prieto; 8. Agricultural boom, subnational mobilization, and variations of violence in Argentina Pablo Lapegna; 9. Patterns of violence and the dead ends of democratization in subnational Argentina Hugues Fournier; 10. Clientelism and state violence in subnational democratic consolidation in Bahía, Brazil Julián Durazo Herrmann; Conclusion: learning from subnational violence Tina Hilgers and Laura Macdonald.

Über Autor(innen)

Hilgers, Tina
Tina Hilgers is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Concordia University, Montréal. She is editor of Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics (2012), co-editor of A violência na América Latina e no Caribe (forthcoming, with Jorge Luiz Barbosa), and Director of Concordia University's Lab for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LLACS).

Macdonald, Laura
Laura Macdonald is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, Ottawa. She has published articles in numerous journals and has edited collections on such issues as the role of non-governmental organizations in development, global civil society, citizenship struggles in Latin America, Canadian development assistance, and the political impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on human rights and democracy in the three member states.