26 research outputs found
Violent Governance, Identity and the Production of Legitimacy: Autodefensas in Latin America
This article examines the intersections of violence, governance, identity and legitimacy in relation to autodefensas (self-defence groups) in Latin America, focusing on Mexico and Colombia. By shifting focus from the question of where legitimacy lies to how it is produced and contested by a range of groups, we challenge the often presumed link between the state and legitimacy. We develop the idea of a field of negotiation and contestation, firstly, to discuss and critique the concept of state failure as not merely a Western hegemonic claim but also a strategic means of producing legitimacy by autodefensas. Secondly, we employ and enrich the notion of violent pluralism to discuss the pervasiveness of violence and the role of neoliberalism, and to address the question of non-violent practices of governance. We argue that the idea of a field of contestation and negotiation helps to understand the complexity of relationships that encompass the production of legitimacy and identity through (non)violent governance, whereby lines between (non)state, (non)violence, and (il)legitimacy blur and transform. Yet, we do not simply dismiss (binary) distinctions as these continue to be employed by groups in their efforts to produce, justify, challenge, contest and negotiate their own and others’ legitimacy and identity
Social Responses to Criminal Governance in Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Kingston, and Medellín
R. S. Rose, The Unpast: Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1954–2000 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2005), pp. xix+437, £19.50, pb.
Livio Sansone. Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Photographs, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 256 pp.; hardcover 21.95. - Donna Goldstein. Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Photographs, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 379 pp.; hardcover 24.95.
A vigilância comunitária e a crise de segurança cidadãna Latino-Américana
Traducción del artículo "Community Policing and Latin America's Citizen Security Crisis"Translate from Source: Comparative Politics, Vol. 41, No. 4 (July 2009), pp. 409-429 Published by: Ph.D. Program in Political Science of the City University of New Yor