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

• Autore: Gledhill John
• 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
• 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
• ISBN: 1-78360-304-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910796011503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II