Suchergebnisse

Violent pluralism : understanding the new democracies of Latin America / Enrique Desmond Arias and Daniel M. Goldstein -- The political and economic origins of violence and insecurity in contemporary Latin America : past trajectories and future prospects / Diane E. Davis -- End of discussion : violence, participatory democracy, and the limits of dissent in Colombia / Mary Roldán -- -- Maintaining democracy in Colombia through political exclusion, states of exception, counterinsurgency, and dirty war / María Clemencia Ramírez -- Clandestine connections : the political and relational makings of collective violence / Javier Auyero -- "Living in a jungle" : state violence and perceptions of democracy in Buenos Aires / Ruth Stanley -- Organized violence, disorganized state / Lilian Bobea -- Toward uncivil society: causes and consequences of violence in Rio de Janeiro / Robert Gay -- Violence, democracy, and human rights in Latin America / Todd Landman -- Conclusion : understanding violent pluralism / Enrique Desmond Arias.

ABSTRACTThis essay examines how the inhabitants of Putumayo, a department of Colombia both divided and held together by licit and illicit authority structures and markets, engage with varied political orders as they advance individual and collective economic and political projects. Putumayo's inhabitants adopt four basic strategies to maintain their often illicit livelihoods amid state repression. The first is intellectual resistance, wherein they develop explanations for their involvement in illicit markets that they can use to alter local and national state behavior. The second is protest, through which groups of peasants mobilize to support their illicit but socially normalized economic endeavors. A third is evasion or malicia, in which peasants seek to strategically adhere to state policy to misdirect the state as they continue to grow coca. Fourth, some peasants pursue a strategy of exit, going deeper into the jungle in search of land where they can peacefully grow coca.

AbstractThis article examines the politics of how drug traffickers resolve disputes and maintain order in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Much popular discourse and some scholarly studies argue that drug traffickers play a major role in controlling crime and minimizing conflicts there. This article shows that traffickers enforce community norms under a variable political calculus in which well-connected and respected residents are less likely to be punished for rule violations than are individuals who are marginal to the life of the community. This allows many favela residents who conform to local norms to feel a degree of control over their own safety, a "myth of personal security" in otherwise violent neighborhoods.