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    Violence and resilience in Latin American cities (2015)
    London : Zed Books
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    ISBN: 9781780324593 , 9781780324609 , 9781780324586
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 195 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Print version Koonings, Kees Violence and Resilience in Latin American Cities
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Violence and resilience in Latin American cities
    DDC: 303.6098
    RVK:
    MI 70989
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    LB 73615
    Keywords: Resilience (Personality trait) ; Stadt ; Verstädterung ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Widerstand ; Politische Bewegung ; Soziale Bewegung ; Maßnahme ; Politik ; Deeskalation ; Konflikt ; Electronic books ; Resilience (Personality trait) ; Lateinamerika
    Abstract: Featuring original fieldwork across a broad array of case studies, this cutting edge volume focuses on questions not only of crime and insecurity, but also of Latin American cities' ability to creatively and productively respond to these problems.
    Abstract: Front Cover -- About the Editors -- Series Titles -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures, Tables and Box -- About the Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1 | Urban fragility and resilience in Latin America: conceptual approaches and contemporary patterns -- Starting point: the basic contours of urban violence in Latin America and the Caribbean -- General contemporary trends in Latin America -- Persistent sources of urban fragility -- Urban resilience -- The city cases: rationale and overall findings -- Conclusion -- 2 | Exclusion, violence and resilience in five Latin American megacities: a comparison of Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo -- Introduction -- Poverty, inequality and violence: trends in five megacities since 1990 -- Urban armed actors and the dynamics of violence -- Urban resilience -- 3 | Caracas: from heaven's branch to urban hell -- Introduction -- Caracas in modernising and urbanising Venezuela -- Violence and institutional crises in Caracas -- The Bolivarian revolution -- Caracas' fragilities: violence in times of prosperity -- Institutional destruction and the failure of citizen security responses -- Defensive resilience -- Conclusion -- 4 | Bogotá: countering violence with urban government -- Introduction: crime in Latin America -- Crime in Bogotá: changes over time -- The national context -- From 2008: a new crime surge or a mere blip? -- Conclusion -- 5 | San Salvador: violence and resilience in gangland - coping with the code of the street -- Introduction -- Gangs and a gang truce in El Salvador -- Gang control in popular neighbourhoods -- Restricted movement and sociability -- Insecurity, gang truce and ordinary youth -- Conclusion: resilience in gangland -- 6 | San José: urban expansion, violence and resilience -- Introduction.
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    Violence and resilience in Latin American cities (2015)
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    ISBN: 1780324561 , 9781780324562 , 9781780324579
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 195 Seiten , Diagramme
    DDC: 303.6098/091732
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    Keywords: Crime Case studies ; Violence Case studies ; Resilience (Personality trait) Case studies ; Public safety Case studies ; Law enforcement Case studies ; Local government Case studies ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lateinamerika ; Stadt ; Gewaltkriminalität
    Abstract: Urban fragility and resilience in Latin America : conceptual approaches and contemporary patterns / Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt -- Exclusion, violence and resilience in five Latin American megacities : a comparison of Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo / Dirk Kruijt and Kees Koonings -- Caracas : from heaven's branch to urban hell / Roberto Briceño-León -- Bogotá : countering violence with urban government / Alan Gilbert -- San Salvador : violence and resilience in gangland : coping with the code of the street / Wim Savenije and Chris van der Borgh -- San José : urban expansion, violence and resilience / Abelardo Morales Gamboa -- Kingston : violence and resilience / Rivke Jaffe -- Santo Domingo : criminogenic violence and resilience / Lilian Bobea
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    Megacities : the politics of urban exclusion and violence in the global south (2011)
    London : Zed Books
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    ISBN: 1848134908 , 9781848134904
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (viii, 200 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
    DDC: 305.5/6909172/4
    Keywords: Cities and towns Congresses ; Growth ; Developing countries ; Cities and towns Congresses ; Growth ; Southern Hemisphere ; Marginality, Social Congresses ; Developing countries ; Marginality, Social Congresses ; Southern Hemisphere ; Urban poor Congresses ; Developing countries ; Urban poor Congresses ; Southern Hemisphere ; Urban violence Congresses ; Developing countries ; Urban violence Congresses ; Southern Hemisphere ; Urbanization Congresses ; Developing countries ; Urbanization Congresses ; Southern Hemisphere ; Developing countries Congresses ; Social conditions ; Southern Hemisphere Congresses ; Social conditions ; Developing countries ; Southern Hemisphere ; Electronic books Conference papers and proceedings
    Abstract: "The twenty-first century is set to be the stage for the massive urbanization of the world's population. Particularly, the so-called 'megacities' around the world are rapidly becoming the scene for deprivation and exclusion, especially in what has come to be called the 'global south'. In such large-scale yet concentrated social environments, a complex set of relationships links poverty and exclusion to urban politics, power relations and public policy. Violent actors look for power in strategies that seek access to urban politics and policy-making. The urban poor are confronted with the challenge of charting pathways in their 'encounters with violence'. Local politicians, administrators, grass roots leaders and NGO officials are faced with the puzzle of how to restore effective non-violent institutions, legitimate governance and citizen security. Featuring case studies from across the globe, Megacities examines recent world-wide trends in poverty and social exclusion, urban violence and politics, and links these to the challenges faced by policy-makers and practitioners."--Publisher description
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-194) and index , Print version record , Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
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    Armed Actors : Organized Violence and State Failure in Latin America (2013)
    London : Zed Books
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    ISBN: 9781848131200
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (225 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Koonings, Kees Armed Actors : Organized Violence and State Failure in Latin America
    DDC: 303.6/098
    Keywords: Failed states -- Latin America ; Political stability -- Latin America ; Political violence -- Latin America ; Violence -- Latin America
    Abstract: This volume deals with the threat to democracy and the rule of law posed by organised violence in Latin America
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 | Armed actors, organized violence and state failure in Latin America: a survey of issues and arguments -- Democracy and violence -- State failure, uncivil society and 'new violence' -- The proliferation of armed actors -- Armed actors and violence: social and political consequences -- Notes -- 2 | The military and their shadowy brothers-in-arms -- Political armies: officers and gentlemen? -- Intelligence: secrecy, impunity and action -- Paramilitary forces -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 | Policing extensions in Latin America -- Introduction -- The nature of 'policing extensions' -- Latin American policing extensions: basic pattern and diversity -- Brazil: simple patterns -- Guatemala: complexity -- Final observations: the threat of repoliticization -- Notes -- 4 | Peru's Comités de Autodefensa Civil and Guatemala's Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil in comparative perspective -- Introduction -- The genesis of civil defence patrols in Peru and Guatemala -- State counter-insurgency and civil defence in Peru and Guatemala -- The civil defence patrols and the rule of law -- The civil defence patrols and civil society -- The civil defence patrols and the construction of citizenship -- The social legacy of civil defence patrols in Peru and Guatemala -- Notes -- 5 | Violence as market strategy in drug trafficking: the Andean experience -- Introduction -- The cocaine industry: production and trafficking -- The growth of the drug industry: major conditioning factors -- The industry and its entrepreneurs -- Business practices in the drug industry -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 6 | Armed actors in the Colombian conflict -- T he rise of the paramilitaries, 1958-90 -- The strengthening of armed actors, 1990-98 -- Plan Colombia and the escalation of the war, 1998-2003 -- Conclusion -- Notes
    Abstract: 7 | Venezuela: the remilitarization of politics -- The role of the military in the Punto Fijo democracy -- The erosion of civilian control of the armed forces -- The 11 April 2002 coup attempt -- The December 2002 general strike and beyond -- Civilian organized violence during the Chávez administration -- The effects of organized violence on Venezuelan society -- Conclusions: explaining the remilitarization of politics -- Notes -- 8 | A failed state facing new criminal problems: the case of Argentina -- Democratization and new forms of violence -- The new criminal problems in Argentina -- Political misgovernment, deficient policing and social insecurity -- 9 | Urban violence and drug warfare in Brazil -- Introduction -- A brief history of social and institutional violence in Brazil -- Urban violence, crime and drugs -- Explaining the paradox of violence -- Drug trafficking in Rio de Janeiro -- The warrior ethos and warfare -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10 | Youth gangs, social exclusion and the transformation of violence in El Salvador -- Statistics on violence and homicides -- The depoliticization of violence in El Salvador -- Explaining the transformation of violence in El Salvador -- Structural, political and symbolic violence -- Violence in marginalized neighbourhoods in San Salvador -- The mara phenomenon -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11 | Violence and fear in Colombia -- Violence and fear in Colombia -- Social distribution of the violence -- Fear and its impact -- Forms of flight -- Notes -- 12 | Epilogue: violence and the quest for order in contemporary Latin America -- About the contributors -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Armed actors : organised violence and state failure in Latin America (2004)
    London : Zed Books
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    ISBN: 1842774441 , 184277445X
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 214 p) , ill , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version Armed Actors : Organised Violence and State Failure in Latin America
    DDC: 303.6/098
    Keywords: Political stability ; Failed states ; Political violence ; Violence ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume explores recent evidence of how partial state failure in Latin America interacts with new forms of organized violence, undermining the democratic consolidations of the past two decades. This 'new violence' stems from a variety of social actors: drug mafias, peasant militias and urban gangs, the socalled actores armadas, and include state-related actors like the police, military intelligence agencies and paramilitary forces. The results include both 'governance voids' - domains where the legitimate state is effectively absent - and the erosion of the capacity and willingness of stat
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 - Armed actors, organized violence and state failure in Latin America: a survey of issues and arguments; 2 - The military and their shadowy brothers-in-arms; 3 - Policing extensions in Latin America; 4 - Peru's Comités de Autodefensa Civil and Guatemala's Patrullas de Autodefensa Civil in comparative perspective; 5 - Violence as market strategy in drug trafficking: the Andean experience; 6 - Armed actors in the Colombian conflict; 7 - Venezuela: the remilitarization of politics
    Description / Table of Contents: 8 - A failed state facing new criminal problems: the case of Argentina9 - Urban violence and drug warfare in Brazil; 10 - Youth gangs, social exclusion and the transformation of violence in El Salvador; 11 - Violence and fear in Colombia; 12 - Epilogue: violence and the quest for order in contemporary Latin America; About the contributors; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-210) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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    Fractured Cities : Social Exclusion, Urban Violence and Contested Spaces in Latin America (2013)
    London : Zed Books
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    ISBN: 9781848131354
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (175 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Leeds, Doctor Elisabeth Fractured Cities : Social Exclusion, Urban Violence and Contested Spaces in Latin America
    DDC: 305.5/69098091732
    Keywords: Electronic books. -- local ; Latin America -- Social conditions ; Urban poor -- Latin America ; Urban violence -- Latin America
    Abstract: As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable. Based on empirical evidence, interviews with local people and historical contextualization, the authors attempt to shed light on the fault-lines which have appeared in Latin American society
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the duality of Latin American cityscapes -- 1 | Fractured cities, second-class citizenship and urban violence -- Urban poverty, desborde popular and the erosion of the formal social order -- Conceptualizing exclusion, insecurity and violence -- Armed actors and violence brokers -- The politics of urban violence -- Parallel power and perverse integration -- Notes -- 2 | Rio de Janeiro -- Favela-related violence -- Impact on education -- Motives for involvement in drugs trading -- Police and community - negative dialogues -- Political-administrative constraints -- Police oversight and the lack of political will -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 3 | Mexico City -- Violence as fact and phantom -- Metropolitan structure and security governance -- Patterns and actors of insecurity and violence -- Governmental and societal responses and strategies -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 4 | Medellín -- A history of urban violence in Medellín -- Daily life under guerrillas and paramilitaries -- A promising peace process with the paramilitaries -- Concluding remarks -- Note -- 5 | Managua -- Barrio Luis Fanor Hernández: past and present -- Drugs, material wealth and conspicuous consumption -- Consumption, cultural exclusion and predation -- Violence and primitive accumulation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 | Caracas -- Divided Caracas -- The advent of violence in Caracas -- Forms of violence -- Fear as an urban sentiment -- The loss of the city -- Democracy and violence in the city -- 7 | Lima Metropolitana -- City of informales -- New social actors and new forms of popular organization -- Low-intensity violence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8 | Living in fear: how the urban poor perceive violence, fear and insecurity -- The diversity and complexity of violence among the urban poor
    Abstract: Social fragmentation and spatial restrictions -- The legitimization of violence among the urban poor I -- The legitimization of violence among the urban poor II -- Non-violent coping: a gendered response -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Epilogue: Latin America's urban duality revisited -- About the authors -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Megacities : the politics of urban exclusion and violence in the global south (2009)
    London : Zed Books
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    ISBN: 9781848134904 , 1848134908 , 9781848132962 , 1848132964 , 9781848132955 , 1848132956
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 200 p.)
    DDC: 305.5/6909172/4
    Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness ; Cities and towns / Growth ; Marginality, Social ; Social history ; Urban poor ; Urban violence ; Urbanization ; Entwicklungsländer ; Sozialgeschichte ; Stadt ; Verstädterung ; Urban poor Congresses ; Urban poor Congresses ; Marginality, Social Congresses ; Marginality, Social Congresses ; Urban violence Congresses ; Urban violence Congresses ; Cities and towns Congresses Growth ; Cities and towns Congresses Growth ; Urbanization Congresses ; Urbanization Congresses ; Ausgrenzung ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Megastadt ; Schwellenländer ; Entwicklungsländer ; Konferenzschrift ; Entwicklungsländer ; Megastadt ; Ausgrenzung ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Schwellenländer ; Megastadt ; Ausgrenzung ; Gewalttätigkeit
    Note: "The chapters of this book were originally presented as draft papers at the conference 'The politics of urban poverty, exclusion and violence: comparative analysis and policy insights, ' organized in The Hague on 27 and 28 September 2007"--P. vii. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-194) and index , The rise of megacities and the urbanization of informality, exclusion and violence / Dirk Kruijt and Kees Koonings -- From popular movements to drug gangs to militias : an anatomy of violence in Rio de Janeiro / Robert Gay -- Megacity's violence and its consequences in Rio de Janeiro / Janice Perlman -- Coping with urban violence : state and community responses to crime and insecurity in Guayaquil, Ecuador / Caroline Moser -- Middle Eastern megacities : social exclusion, popular movements and the quiet encroachment of the urban poor / Asef Bayat -- Urban governance and the paradox of conflict / Jo Beall -- Shoot the citizen, save the customer : participatory budgeting and bare citizenship in Porto Alegre, Brazil / Sérgio Baierle -- Crisis of the state, violence in the city / Mariano Aguirre -- Urban exclusion and the (false) assumptions of spatial policy reform in South Africa / Susan Parnell and Owen Crankshaw -- Conclusions : governing exclusion and violence in megacities / Kees Koonings and Dirk Kruijt , "The twenty-first century is set to be the stage for the massive urbanization of the world's population. Particularly, the so-called 'megacities' around the world are rapidly becoming the scene for deprivation and exclusion, especially in what has come to be called the 'global south'. In such large-scale yet concentrated social environments, a complex set of relationships links poverty and exclusion to urban politics, power relations and public policy. Violent actors look for power in strategies that seek access to urban politics and policy-making. The urban poor are confronted with the challenge of charting pathways in their 'encounters with violence'. Local politicians, administrators, grass roots leaders and NGO officials are faced with the puzzle of how to restore effective non-violent institutions, legitimate governance and citizen security. Featuring case studies from across the globe, Megacities examines recent world-wide trends in poverty and social exclusion, urban violence and politics, and links these to the challenges faced by policy-makers and practitioners."--Publisher description
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