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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Tina Hilgers; Laura Macdonald |
ISBN: | 9781108141819 1108141811 9781108140553 1108140556 9781316643624 131664362X |
OCLC Number: | 1004225327 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 298 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: How Violence Varies: Subnational Place, Identity, and Embeddedness; Part I Methodology; 1 Not Killer Methods: A Few Things We Get Wrong When Studying Violence in Latin America; Part II Urban Violence and Clientelism; 2 The Clientelist Bases of Police Violence in Democratic Mexico City; 3 Of Criminal Factions, UPPs, and Militias: The State of Public Insecurity in Rio de Janeiro. 4 The Garrison Community in Kingston and Its Implications for Violence, Policing, De Facto Rights, and Security in Jamaica5 The Salvadoran Gang Truce (2012-2014): Insights on Subnational Security Governance in El Salvador; 6 Guns and Butter: Social Policy, Semiclientelism, and Efforts to Reduce Violence in Mexico City; Part III Regional Violence and Clientelism; 7 Subnational Authoritarianism and Democratization in Colombia: Divergent Paths in Cesar and Magdalena; 8 Agricultural Boom, Subnational Mobilization, and Variations of Violence in Argentina; 9 Patterns of Violence and the Dead Ends of Democratization in Subnational Argentina10 Clientelism and State Violence in Subnational Democratic Consolidation in Bahia, Brazil; Conclusion: Learning from Subnational Violence; Bibliography. |
Responsibility: | Tina Hilgers, Laura Macdonald. |
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'Violence and fear have become a daily staple for Latin Americans. In Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean Tina Hilgers and Laura Macdonald have made a major contribution at two levels. In their introduction and conclusion they offer a superb scholarly synthesis of the phenomenon and the literature, while in the chapters they have compiled, the reader will find a good selection of topics and countries. A book that has all the ingredients to become a classic.' Sergio Aguayo, El Colegio de Mexico 'With its focus on meso-level analysis and the interstices of sociology and political science, Hilgers and Macdonald's volume offers an important contribution to the literature on violence in Latin American and the Caribbean.' Enrique Desmond Arias, George Mason University, Washington, DC 'Hilgers and Macdonalds edited volume offers an impressive overview of the character, causes and consequences of violence across the Americas. The region's staggering rates of homicide and violent crime are widely known. Yet the book's contributing authors dive below the national statistics to reveal the micro-determinants of violence. Along the way, they demonstrate how Latin American police can be violence entrepreneurs, how prisons often double as crime colleges, and the way widespread clientelism preserves an unequal and volatile status quo. The book is essential reading for public security and development specialists looking for a deeper understanding of the drivers of violence in Latin America and the Caribbean, and insights into how to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.' Robert Muggah, Research Director, Instituto Igarape, Brazil 'Readers will come away from this worthy volume with greater appreciation of why violence in Latin America and the Caribbean has been so intractable - it is in fact a multifaceted problem, varying across the region, with many and diverse causes and implications.' Tom Long, International Affairs 'A landmark in the study of violence.' Patrick Heller, Canadian Journal of Political Science 'By highlighting new relations between clientelism and violence, this book rightly draws our attention towards the power structures in which violence is immersed and to the ways in which it becomes lucrative to powerful actors ... Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean is built around thought-provoking questions that help revitalize the study of the problem and the potential solutions.' Alexandra Abello Colak, Journal of Latin American Studies Read more...

