The new war on the poor : the production of insecurity in Latin America /: the production of insecurity in Latin America. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Gledhill.
• Other Names: Gledhill, John
• Contents: Front Cover; About the Author ; Title Page ; Copyright ; Contents ; Maps ; Acknowledgements ; 1: Securitization, the State and Capitalism; Poverty, Inequality and Social Mobility ; The Human Security Paradigm ; Securitization and the Development-Security Nexus ; The Structure and Methodology of the Book ; 2: Violence, Urban Development and the Privatization of Public Power in Brazil; Understanding Patterns of Violence ; São Paulo: Criminal Power and State Power ; Rio de Janeiro: The UPP Experience; Favela Pacification as Accumulation by Dispossession. 3: Pacifying the Urban Periphery: A Case Study of the Bahian UPPThe Order of the State and the Order of Crime ; Securitization as a Reproducer of Insecurity ; The Bahian Police: Another Deficit of Respect? ; Lessons from Bahia ; 4: State Transformations, Illegal Economies and Counter-Insurgency in Mexico; Establishing 'Truths' About State Terror and Insurgency; Guerrero: A War That Did Not Pacify; Paramilitarism and the State in Chiapas ; Decentring the EZLN; 5: Paramilitaries, Autodefensas and the Pacification of Michoacán; The State and the Development of the Drugs Trade. From Cartel Wars and Wars Against Cartels to Mafias Indigenous and Mestizo Self-Defence Forces; Not Seeing, Like a State ; 6: Achieving Human Security: The Contradictions of Repressive Intervention; Rural and Urban Dystopias ; Transnational Perspectives ; Security That Creates Insecurity ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index ; Back Cover.
• Publisher Details: London : Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 364.4086/9420972; Crime prevention -- Economic aspects -- Brazil; Crime prevention -- Economic aspects -- Mexico; Internal security -- Economic aspects -- Brazil; Internal security -- Economic aspects -- Mexico; Poverty -- Brazil; Poverty -- Mexico; Politics & government; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions; Crime prevention -- Economic aspects; Poverty; Brazil; Mexico; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1783603046; 9781783603046; 9781783603039; 1783603038; 9781783603022; 9781783603053; 1783603054; 9781783603060; 1783603062
• Related ISBNs: 178360302X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 25, 2015).
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