Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Armed Actors: Organized Violence and State Failure in Latin America
    Unavailable
    Armed Actors: Organized Violence and State Failure in Latin America
    Unavailable
    Armed Actors: Organized Violence and State Failure in Latin America
    Ebook405 pages5 hours

    Armed Actors: Organized Violence and State Failure in Latin America

    By Zed Books

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    In this volume, Latin Americanist scholars explore the recent evidence relating to the ways in which partial state failure in the continent is interacting with new types of organized violence, thereby undermining the process of democratic consolidation that has characterized Latin America over the past two decades. This 'new violence' stems - as this book's case studies from Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Venezuela, Brazil and other countries, including El Salvador, show - from a heterogeneous variety of social actors including drug mafias, peasant militias and urban gangs (collectively referred to as actores armadas), as well as state-related actors like the police, military intelligence agencies and paramilitary forces.

    These armed actors are reproducing organized social and political violence beyond the confines of democratic politics and civil society. The results, as the authors warn, include both 'governance voids' - domains where the legitimate state is effectively absent in the face of armed actors prevailing by force - and an erosion of the capacity and willingness of state officials themselves to abide by the rule of law. These tendencies, in turn, pave the way for a possible reinstallation of authoritarian regimes under the control of politicized armies or, at the very least, the spread of state violence in one form or another.

    Why these tendencies need to be taken so seriously is, the authors argue, because of the deeper social roots underlying them - notably the failure of neoliberal economic policies and weakened state structures to deliver the jobs, standards of living and social services every democratic citizenry has a right to expect. The Argentinian collapse and persistent Colombian and Venezuelan crises receive special attention in this regard.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZed Books
    Release dateApr 4, 2013
    ISBN9781848136151
    Unavailable
    Armed Actors: Organized Violence and State Failure in Latin America

    Related to Armed Actors

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      ‘Security Without War’ Campaign Opposes Militarization in Mexico Because ‘Bullets Are Killing Us, Not Drugs’

      Apr 7, 2017

      "The army and the police are not interchangeable. The military forces are trained to use force against an armed enemy and defeat it."

      5 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    • Article

      Robert C. Koehler: The Knee Of Change

      Jun 4, 2020

      Is George Floyd today’s Emmett Till? Is the nation moving beyond, oh God, its third manifestation of “legal” racism? The first manifestation was, of course, slavery, which was eliminated via the Civil War. The second manifestation was the Jim Crow/KK

      4 min read

    Reviews for Armed Actors

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words