Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean

Tina Hilgers is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Concordia University, Montréal. She is editor of Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics (2012), co-editor of A violência na América Latina e no Caribe (forthcoming, with Jorge Luiz Barbosa), and Director of Concordia University's Lab for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LLACS). Laura Macdonald is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University, Ottawa. She has published articles in numerous journals and has edited collections on such issues as the role of non-governmental organizations in development, global civil society, citizenship struggles in Latin America, Canadian development assistance, and the political impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on human rights and democracy in the three member states.

Introduction: how violence varies: subnational place, identity, and embeddedness Tina Hilgers and Laura Macdonald; 1. Not killer methods: a few things we got wrong when studying violence in Latin America Jean Daudelin; 2. The clientelist bases of police violence in democratic Mexico City Markus-Michael Müller; 3. Of criminal factions, UPPs, and militias: the state of public insecurity in Rio de Janeiro Robert Gay; 4. The garrison community in Kingston: urban violence, policing, private security, and implications for national security and civil rights in Jamaica Yonique Campbell and Colin Clarke; 5. The Salvadorian gang truce (2012–2014): insights on subnational security governance in El Salvador Gaëlle Rivard Piché; 6. Guns and butter: social policy, semi-clientelism, and efforts to reduce violence in Mexico City Lucy Luccisano and Laura Macdonald; 7. Subnational authoritarianism and democratization in Colombia: divergent paths in Cesar and Magdalena Kent Eaton and Juan Diego Prieto; 8. Agricultural boom, subnational mobilization, and variations of violence in Argentina Pablo Lapegna; 9. Patterns of violence and the dead ends of democratization in subnational Argentina Hugues Fournier; 10. Clientelism and state violence in subnational democratic consolidation in Bahía, Brazil Julián Durazo Herrmann; Conclusion: learning from subnational violence Tina Hilgers and Laura Macdonald.