Goldstein Outlawed

Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9560-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Reihe: A John Hope Franklin Center book

An ethnography examining how indigenous residents of crime-ridden, marginalized neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance human rights with their need for safety and security.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldstein, Daniel M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

1. Security, Rights, and the Law in Evo's Bolivia 1

2. Getting Engaged: Reflections on an Activist Anthropology 35

3. The Phantom State: Law and Ordering on the Urban Margins 77

4. Exorcising Ghosts: Managing Insecurity in Uhspa Uhspa 121

5. Community Justice and the Creative Imagination 167

6. Inhuman Rights? Violence at the Nexus of Rights and Security 203

7. An Uncertain Anthropology 239

Notes 257

References 281

Index 305

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel M. Goldstein is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia and a coeditor of Violent Democracies of Latin America, both also published by Duke University Press.