Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean : subnational structures, institutions, and clientelistic networks / Tina Hilgers, Laura Macdonald.
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 practi...
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Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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Table of 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.