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This edited volume asks how the city, with its spatial and temporal
configuration and its rhythms, produces and shapes violence, both
in terms of the built environment, and through particular
‘urban’ social relations. The book builds on the insight that
violence itself is a spatiotemporal practice with generative
capacities, which produces and transforms urban space and time in
the long turn, also through the impact of memory. The analytical
categories of space and time must be thought as inextricably linked
with each other. Expanding this fundamental conceptual idea offers
fresh perspectives on urban violence. The book unites case studies
on different world regions and historical periods , and thus
challenges assumed binaries of cities the global North and South,
the past and present. -- .
Paramilitaries, crime, and thousands of disappeared in official
numbers - the so-called 'war on drugs' has perpetuated violence in
parts of Latin America, at times precisely in regions of economic
growth. Legal and illegal economy are difficult to distinguish. A
failure of state institutions to provide security for its citizens
does not sufficiently explain this. This book offers a detailed
analysis of the role of the state in violence: To what extent and
for whom do states produce order and disorder, by devising security
policies within the 'fight against drugs'? Which social forces
support and drive such policies? This first comparative study of
Colombian and Mexican security policies employs state theory and
critical political economy to understand recent dynamics of
violence in both contexts. It highlights how the 'war on drugs' has
exacerbated contradictions driven by a particular economic model,
and simultaneously resorts to discourses which criminalize
precisely those that this model has radically disadvantaged.
Im Kontext neoliberaler Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftspolitik
erfuhren die Lander Lateinamerikas tiefgreifende Veranderungen
ihrer Sozialstrukturen. Jedoch kontrastiert die hohe Relevanz
dieser Wandlungsprozesse mit ihrer bislang geringen
wissenschaftlichen Erforschung. Der Sammelband vereint daher die
wenigen und hervorragenden internationalen vor allem aus
Lateinamerika stammenden Beitrage zu den wichtigsten Dimensionen
der gegenwartigen Sozialstrukturen. Damit wird eine erste
theoretische und empirische Grundlage fur weiterfuhrende Analysen
der lateinamerikanischen Realitat geschaffen.
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