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Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer
perpetrated primarily by states against their citizens, but by a
variety of state and non-state actors struggling to control
resources, territories, and populations. This book examines
violence at the subnational level to illuminate how practices of
violence are embedded within subnational configurations of space
and clientelistic networks. In societies shaped by centuries of
violence and exclusion, inequality and marginalization prevail at
the same time that democratization and neoliberalism have
decentralized power to regional and local levels, where democratic
and authoritarian practices coexist. Within subnational arenas,
unique configurations - of historical legacies, economic
structures, identities, institutions, actors, and clientelistic
networks - result in particular patterns of violence and
vulnerability that are often strikingly different from what is
portrayed by aggregate national-level statistics. The chapters of
this book examine critical cases from across the region, drawing on
new primary data collected in the field to analyze how a range of
political actors and institutions shape people's lives and to
connect structural and physical forms of violence.
Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer
perpetrated primarily by states against their citizens, but by a
variety of state and non-state actors struggling to control
resources, territories, and populations. This book examines
violence at the subnational level to illuminate how practices of
violence are embedded within subnational configurations of space
and clientelistic networks. In societies shaped by centuries of
violence and exclusion, inequality and marginalization prevail at
the same time that democratization and neoliberalism have
decentralized power to regional and local levels, where democratic
and authoritarian practices coexist. Within subnational arenas,
unique configurations - of historical legacies, economic
structures, identities, institutions, actors, and clientelistic
networks - result in particular patterns of violence and
vulnerability that are often strikingly different from what is
portrayed by aggregate national-level statistics. The chapters of
this book examine critical cases from across the region, drawing on
new primary data collected in the field to analyze how a range of
political actors and institutions shape people's lives and to
connect structural and physical forms of violence.
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