Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean Subnational Structures, Institutions, and Clientelistic Networks

This volume examines violence across Latin America and the Caribbean to demonstrate the importance of subnational analysis over national aggregates.

Info autore

Tina Hilgers is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Concordia University, Montréal. She is editor of Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics (2012), co-editor of A violência na América Latina e no Caribe (forthcoming, with Jorge Luiz Barbosa), and Director of Concordia University's Lab for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LLACS).Laura Macdonald is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, Ottawa. She has published articles in numerous journals and has edited collections on such issues as the role of non-governmental organizations in development, global civil society, citizenship struggles in Latin America, Canadian development assistance, and the political impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on human rights and democracy in the three member states.

Riassunto

Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean is no longer perpetrated primarily by states against their citizens, but by a variety of state and non-state actors. This book examines violence at the subnational level to illuminate how violence and vulnerability are embedded within subnational configurations of space and clientelistic networks.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: MacDonald Laura (Editore), Tina (Concordia University Hilgers (Editore), Laura (Carleton University Macdonald (Editore), Hilgers Tina (Editore), Tina Hilgers (Editore), Laura Macdonald (Editore)
• Autori: Tina (Concordia University Hilgers, Tina Hilgers
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 30.09.2017
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche
• EAN: 9781107193178
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19317-8
• Numero di pagine: 308
• Categorie: Latin America, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General, Caribbean islands, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state