Politics and History of Violence and Crime in Central America
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Politics and History of Violence and Crime in Central America

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Politics and History of Violence and Crime in Central America

About this book

This book highlights historical explanations to and roots of present phenomena of violence, insecurity, and law enforcement in Central America. Violence and crime are among the most discussed topics in Central America today, and sensationalism and fear of crime is as present as the increase of private security, the re-militarization of law enforcement, political populism, and mano dura policies. The contributors to this volume discuss historical forms, paths, continuities, and changes of violence and its public and political discussion in the region. This book thus offers in-depth analysis of different patterns of violence, their reproduction over time, their articulation in the present, and finally their discursive mobilization.

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Yes, you can access Politics and History of Violence and Crime in Central America by Sebastian Huhn,Hannes Warnecke-Berger in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politik & Internationale Beziehungen & Amerikanische Regierung. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Prologue
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Note on Contributors
  4. List of Abbreviations
  5. List of Figures
  6. Chapter 1: The Enigma of Violent Realities in Central America: Towards a Historical Perspective
  7. Chapter 2: How to Explain and How Not to Explain Contemporary Criminal Violence in Central America
  8. Chapter 3: Of Pandillas, Pirucas, and Pablo Escobar in the Barrio
  9. Chapter 4: Memories of Violence in the Salvadoran Civil War
  10. Chapter 5: Questioning the Crime Wave
  11. Chapter 6: The Salvadoran Armed Left and Revolutionary Violence (1970–1980)
  12. Chapter 7: On Collective Violence in Nineteenth-­Century Guatemala
  13. Chapter 8: Borderlands and Public Violence in a Shadow Polity
  14. Chapter 9: Forms of Violence in Past and Present: El Salvador and Belize in Comparative Perspective
  15. Chapter 10: The Violence of Dispossession: Guatemala in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
  16. Index