Outlawed - Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City

Informationen zum Autor Daniel M. Goldstein is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia and a coeditor of Violent Democracies of Latin America, both also published by Duke University Press. Klappentext Daniel M. Goldstein is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia and a coeditor of Violent Democracies of Latin America, both also published by Duke University Press. Zusammenfassung An ethnography examining how indigenous residents of crime-ridden! marginalized neighborhoods in Cochabamba! Bolivia! struggle to balance human rights with their need for safety and security. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix 1. Security, Rights, and the Law in Evo's Bolivia 1 2. Getting Engaged: Reflections on an Activist Anthropology 35 3. The Phantom State: Law and Ordering on the Urban Margins 77 4. Exorcising Ghosts: Managing Insecurity in Uhspa Uhspa 121 5. Community Justice and the Creative Imagination 167 6. Inhuman Rights? Violence at the Nexus of Rights and Security 203 7. An Uncertain Anthropology 239 Notes 257 References 281 Index 305

Product details

• Authors: Daniel M Goldstein, Daniel M. Goldstein
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.08.2012
• EAN: 9780822352976
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5297-6
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: The Cultures and Practice of Violence; Cultures and Practice of Viole; The Cultures and Practice of Violence; Cultures and Practice of Viole
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology