Politics and History of Violence and Crime in Central America

ISBN-13: 9781349950669 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 330 str.

Sebastian Huhn; Hannes Warnecke-Berger

Opis

This book highlights historical explanations to and roots of present phenomena of violence, insecurity, and law enforcement in Central America. Violence and crime are among the most discussed topics in Central America today, and sensationalism and fear of crime is as present as the increase of private security, the re-militarization of law enforcement, political populism, and mano dura policies. The contributors to this volume discuss historical forms, paths, continuities, and changes of violence and its public and political discussion in the region. This book thus offers in-depth analysis of different patterns of violence, their reproduction over time, their articulation in the present, and finally their discursive mobilization.

Recenzje

"On the whole, the volume offers insights and interpretations from which scholars who study violence and Central America will benefit." (David Carey, Jr., Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, clcjbooks.rutgers.edu, October, 2017)

Spis treści

Prologue

Victor Hugo Acuña Ortega

1. The Enigma of Violent Realities in Central America: Towards a Historical Perspective

Sebastian Huhn and Hannes Warnecke-Berger 

2. How to Explain and How Not to Explain Contemporary Criminal Violence in Central America

Heidrun Zinecker

3. Of pandillas, pirucas, and Pablo Escobar in the barrio: Historical change and continuity in patterns of Nicaraguan gang violence

Dennis Rodgers

4. Memories of Violence in the Salvadoran Civil War: Comparing the Memoirs of Civilian Elites and Former Military Officers

Erik Ching

5. Questioning the Crime Wave: On the Rise of Punitive Populism in Central America since the 1950s

Sebastian Huhn

6. The Salvadoran Armed Left and Revolutionary Violence (1970 – 1980)

Alberto Martín Álvarez and Eudald Cortina Orero

The Violence of Dispossession: Guatemala in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Jim Handy

7. On Collective Violence in 19th-Century Guatemala

Michael Riekenberg

8. Borderlands and Public Violence in a Shadow Polity: Costa Ricans, Nicaraguans and the Legacy of the Central American Federation

Robert H. Holden

9. Forms of Violence in Past and Present: El Salvador and Belize in Comparative Perspective

Hannes Warnecke-Berger

10. The Violence of Dispossession: Guatemala in the 19th and 20th Centuries

Jim Handy

O autorze

Sebastian Huhn is Researcher and Lecturer at Osnabrueck University, Germany. His research focusses on Central American history, violence and crime in Central America and the Global South, and national identity, migration, and youth violence. His publications include several books and articles in English, Spanish, and German.

Hannes Warnecke-Berger is Junior Researcher at the Special Research Council 1199 at the University of Leipzig, Germany. His research touches on the political economy of development and focuses on violence in the Global South. He has conducted extensive field research in El Salvador, Belize, and Jamaica.