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The New War on the Poor [[electronic resource] ] : The Production of Insecurity in Latin America



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Autore: Gledhill John Visualizza persona
Titolo: The New War on the Poor [[electronic resource] ] : The Production of Insecurity in Latin America Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London, : Zed Books, 2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 p.)
Disciplina: 323.3224098
Soggetto topico: Latin America -- Economic conditions
Latin America -- Economic policy
Latin America -- Politics and government
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: 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 Dispossession
3: 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 Trade
From 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 Cover
Sommario/riassunto: John 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The New War on the Poor  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78360-304-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
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Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910467043203321
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