1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450066303321

Autore

Fuentes Claudio

Titolo

Contesting the iron fist : advocacy networks and police violence in democratic Argentina and Chile / / laudio A. Fuentes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-135-87446-8

1-280-30257-7

9786610302574

0-203-31299-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Collana

Latin American studies : social sciences and law

Disciplina

363.2/32

Soggetti

Human rights advocacy - Chile

Police brutality - Chile

Human rights advocacy - Argentina

Police brutality - Argentina

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-218) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Guarding the guardians -- Chile: the denial of police violence -- Explaining an unexpected legal reform in Chile -- Argentina: strong advocacy groups, fluctuating influence -- Dealing with a corporate police force in Argentina -- Contesting the iron fist.

Sommario/riassunto

This work analyzes the interactions and international connections of the ""civil rights"" and ""pro-order"" coalitions of state and societal actors in the two countries. The author demonstrates that in democratizing contexts, protecting citizens from police abuse and becomes part of a debate about how to deal with issues of public safety and social control and of perceived trade-offs between liberty and security.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910467346003321

Titolo

Ojibwe stories from the Upper Berens River : A. Irving Hallowell and Adam Bigmouth in conversation / / edited and with an introduction by Jennifer S. H. Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, [Nebraska] : , : University of Nebraska Press : , : co-published with the American Philosophical Society, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-4962-0448-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies

Disciplina

977.00497333

Soggetti

Ojibwa Indians

Ojibwa Indians - History

Ojibwa Indians - Manitoba - Berens River Valley

Ojibwa mythology

Electronic books.

Berens River (First Nation) History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Map of the world of Adam Bigmouth -- Prologue: Little Grand Rapids, 1932: Adam declines to conjure -- Boyhood memories -- Working for the Hudson's Bay Company -- Dream experiences -- Curing, helping, love medicine, and an old man's jealousy -- Northern Barred Owl, man of many powers -- Gender, power, and the problematics of incest -- The challenges and risks of being female -- Bad medicine and old men's threats -- Starvation threatened and real -- Encounters and contests with windigos -- Human beings made into windigos -- The curing of windigos -- The costs of mockery and cruelty -- Magical medicines and powers -- Afterword: cousins and connections, power and succession, seeking life.