Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world. It has suffered waves of repressive authoritarian rule, organized armed insurgency and civil war, violent protest, and ballooning rates of criminal violence. But is violence hard wired into Latin America? This is a critical reassessment of the ways in which violence in Latin America is addressed and understood. Previous approaches have relied on structural perspectives, attributing the problem of violence to Latin America's colonial past or its conflictual contemporary politics. Bringing together scholars and practitioners, this volume argues that violence is often rooted more in contingent outcomes than in deeply embedded structures. Addressing topics ranging from the root sources of violence in Haiti to kidnapping in Colombia, from the role of property rights in patterns of violence to the challenges of peacebuilding, The Politics of Violence in Latin America is an essential step towards understanding the causes and contexts of violence--and changing the mechanisms that produce it.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2019.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 303.6/098
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- cl-----
- ISBN
- 9781552389089 1552389065 9781552389072
- LCCN
- HN110.5.Z9
- LCCN Item number
- V5 2019eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (ix, 256 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00240045 (OCoLC)1082867465 (CaOOCEL)457212
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- NLC
Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Half Title Page 2
- Series Page 3
- Full Title Page 4
- Copyright Page 5
- CONTENTS 6
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 8
- INTRODUCTION | Structural vs. Contingent Violence in Latin America 12
- PART I 28
- 1 | Making Sense of Haiti’s State Fragility and Violence: Combining Structure and Contingency? 30
- 2 | Operation Condor as an International Systemof State Violence and Terror: A Historical-Structural Analysis 64
- PART II 98
- 3 | Written in Black and Red: Murder as aCommunicative Act in Mexico 100
- 4 | Protest and Police “Excesses” in Chile: The Limits of Social Accountability 124
- 5 | The Police Ombudsman in Brazil as a Potential Mechanism to Reduce Violence 154
- 6 | Democracy, Threat, and Repression: Kidnapping and Repressive Dynamics during the Colombian Conflict 182
- 7 | To End the War in Colombia: Conversatorios among Security Forces, Ex-Guerrillas, and Political Elites, and Ceasefire Seminars-Workshops for the Technical Sub-Commission 210
- CONTRIBUTORS 256
- INDEX 260
- Back Cover 268
