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Outlawed - Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City

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Informationen zum Autor Daniel M. Goldstein Klappentext In Outlawed, Daniel M. Goldstein reveals how indigenous residents of marginal neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance security with rights. Feeling abandoned to the crime and violence that grip their communities, they sometimes turn to vigilante practices, including lynching, to apprehend and punish suspected criminals. Goldstein describes those in this precarious position as "outlawed": not protected from crime by the law but forced to comply with legal measures in other areas of their lives, their solutions to protection criminalized while their needs for security are ignored. He chronicles the complications of the government's attempts to provide greater rights to indigenous peoples, including a new constitution that recognizes "community justice." He also examines how state definitions of indigeneity ignore the existence of marginal neighborhoods, continuing long-standing exclusionary practices. The insecurity felt by the impoverished residents of Cochabamba-and, more broadly, by the urban poor throughout Bolivia and Latin America-remains. Outlawed illuminates the complex interconnections between differing definitions of security and human rights at the local, national, and global levels. 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...

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Authors Daniel M Goldstein, Daniel M. Goldstein, GOLDSTEIN DANIEL M
Publisher Duke University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 21.08.2012
 
EAN 9780822353119
ISBN 978-0-8223-5311-9
No. of pages 344
Dimensions 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
Series 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
Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)

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