02991nam 22004453u 450 991046704320332120210112025507.01-78360-304-6(CKB)3790000000017355(EBL)2084603(MiAaPQ)EBC2084603(EXLCZ)99379000000001735520150720d2015|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||The New War on the Poor[electronic resource] The Production of Insecurity in Latin AmericaLondon Zed Books20151 online resource (258 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-78360-302-X Front Cover; About the Author ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Maps ; Acknowledgements ; 1: Securitization, the State and Capitalism; Poverty, Inequality and Social Mobility ; The Human Security Paradigm ; Securitization and the Development-Security Nexus ; The Structure and Methodology of the Book ; 2: Violence, Urban Development and the Privatization of Public Power in Brazil; Understanding Patterns of Violence ; São Paulo: Criminal Power and State Power ; Rio de Janeiro: The UPP Experience; Favela Pacification as Accumulation by Dispossession3: Pacifying the Urban Periphery: A Case Study of the Bahian UPPThe Order of the State and the Order of Crime ; Securitization as a Reproducer of Insecurity ; The Bahian Police: Another Deficit of Respect? ; Lessons from Bahia ; 4: State Transformations, Illegal Economies and Counter-Insurgency in Mexico; Establishing 'Truths' About State Terror and Insurgency; Guerrero: A War That Did Not Pacify; Paramilitarism and the State in Chiapas ; Decentring the EZLN; 5: Paramilitaries, Autodefensas and the Pacification of Michoacán; The State and the Development of the Drugs TradeFrom Cartel Wars and Wars Against Cartels to Mafias Indigenous and Mestizo Self-Defence Forces; Not Seeing, Like a State ; 6: Achieving Human Security: The Contradictions of Repressive Intervention; Rural and Urban Dystopias ; Transnational Perspectives ; Security That Creates Insecurity ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index ; Back CoverJohn Gledhill examines how and why governments across Latin America are failing to provide security to disadvantaged citizens whilst painting them as a menace to the rest of society.Latin America -- Economic conditionsLatin America -- Economic policyLatin America -- Politics and governmentElectronic books.Latin America -- Economic conditions.Latin America -- Economic policy.Latin America -- Politics and government.323.3224098Gledhill John680328AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910467043203321The New War on the Poor2285385UNINA