Selective Security in the War on Drugs
The Coloniality of State Power in Colombia and Mexico
Seiten
2023
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-5109-9 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-5109-9 (ISBN)
The book offers a comparative analysis of security policies within the scope of the ‘war on drugs’ in Colombia and Mexico and the authoritarian state transformation this entailed.
Paramilitaries, crime, and thousands of disappeared in official numbers – the so-called ‚war on drugs‘ has perpetuated violence in parts of Latin America, at times precisely in regions of economic growth. Legal and illegal economy are difficult to distinguish. A failure of state institutions to provide security for its citizens does not sufficiently explain this. This book offers a detailed analysis of the role of the state in violence: To what extent and for whom do states produce order and disorder, by devising security policies within the ‘fight against drugs’? Which social forces support and drive such policies?
This first comparative study of Colombian and Mexican security policies employs state theory and critical political economy to understand recent dynamics of violence in both contexts. It highlights how the ‘war on drugs’ has exacerbated contradictions driven by a particular economic model, and simultaneously resorts to discourses which criminalize precisely those that this model has radically disadvantaged.
Paramilitaries, crime, and thousands of disappeared in official numbers – the so-called ‚war on drugs‘ has perpetuated violence in parts of Latin America, at times precisely in regions of economic growth. Legal and illegal economy are difficult to distinguish. A failure of state institutions to provide security for its citizens does not sufficiently explain this. This book offers a detailed analysis of the role of the state in violence: To what extent and for whom do states produce order and disorder, by devising security policies within the ‘fight against drugs’? Which social forces support and drive such policies?
This first comparative study of Colombian and Mexican security policies employs state theory and critical political economy to understand recent dynamics of violence in both contexts. It highlights how the ‘war on drugs’ has exacerbated contradictions driven by a particular economic model, and simultaneously resorts to discourses which criminalize precisely those that this model has radically disadvantaged.
Alke Jenss is senior researcher at Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute, affiliated with the University of Freiburg.
1. The Making of Insecurity: Examining the War on Drugs
2. How to approach the state? Authoritarian Neoliberalism and Coloniality
3. Land Property, Violence and Social Relations in Mexico and Colombia: The Historical Context
4. Criminal Capital and the State
5. Travelling Concepts and Discursive Selectivities
6. Institutionalizing Counterinsurgency, Militarizing Security
7. The Criminal Commodity Consensus and Resistance
Conclusion
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.12.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Transforming Capitalism |
Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 158 x 237 mm |
Gewicht | 576 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung |
Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5381-5109-X / 153815109X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-5109-9 / 9781538151099 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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