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1 online resource |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
John Gledhill examines how and why governments across Latin America are failing to provide security to disadvantaged citizens whilst painting them as a menace to the rest of society |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 25, 2015) |
| Subject |
Crime prevention -- Economic aspects -- Brazil
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Crime prevention -- Economic aspects -- Mexico
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Internal security -- Economic aspects -- Brazil
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Internal security -- Economic aspects -- Mexico
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Poverty -- Brazil
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Poverty -- Mexico
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Politics & government.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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Crime prevention -- Economic aspects
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Poverty
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Brazil
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Mexico
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1783603046 |
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9781783603046 |
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9781783603039 |
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1783603038 |
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9781783603022 |
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178360302X |
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9781783603053 |
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1783603054 |
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9781783603060 |
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1783603062 |
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