(In)visible Connections and the Makings of Collective Violence

Auyero, Javier; Mahler, Matthew

doi:10.1057/9780230120037_11

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“…Auyero and Joseph (2007) promote ethnography as the best tool to investigate politics, and to reveal an often hidden or 'gray zone' of politics (Auyero, 2007, pp. 31-53;Auyero, 2010; see also Brink-Danan, 2009, p. 6). This approach fostered a shift away from an exclusive focus on spectacular events such as riots and communal violence (Brass, 1997;Hansen 2001), political rallies and demonstrations (Auyero, 2000a), official parliamentary politics (Abélès, 2006;Crewe, 2015), and the analysis of election results, towards the study of everyday politics.…”

Section: Ethnographies Of Electoral Processes and The Neglect Of Fraudmentioning

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Special issue: electoral fraud and manipulation in India and Pakistan

Martín

Picherit

2019

Commonwealth & Comparative Politics

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Despite official reports and widespread popular accounts of electoral fraud, manipulation, and violence in India and Pakistan, this topic has not been systematically addressed by the scholarly literature. This special issue explores how electoral malpractices are performed across a variety of settings (villages, small towns and cities) in criminalised political contexts. Our in-depth ethnographic studies of the electoral seasons show how fraud and manipulation of electoral processes are a diffuse and pervasive assemblage of practices, discourses and representations which shape and are shaped by local modes of governance and by the idea of free and fair elections.

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Section: Ethnographies Of Electoral Processes and The Neglect Of Fraudmentioning

confidence: 98%

Special issue: electoral fraud and manipulation in India and Pakistan

Martín

Picherit

2019

Commonwealth & Comparative Politics

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“…Currently, the violence and insecurity in Latin America is not the consequence of a defect in the institutional design of its democracies, or its strengths of order and justice systems, rather they exist more as a result of its social organization (Bobea 2010;Landman 2010). This has particularly been demonstrated in countries such as Colombia (Ramírez 2010), Argentina (Auyero 2010;Stanley 2010), Brazil (Gay 2010), Mexico (Guardino and Walker 1992), Peru and Bolivia (Maldonado 2010a).…”

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Doing Surveillance Studies in Latin America: Social sorting in contexts of violence

Arteaga¹

2014

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The article argues that Surveillance Studies in Latin America should analyze violence and insecurity as the central elements in the dynamics of surveillance, but also demonstrates how surveillance acts as a major component on the dynamic of violence in the region. Taking Mexico as a point of reference, the article explores three surveillance regimes: state, social and criminal surveillance in order to identify how the dynamics of insecurity and violence have impacted each. The features of these surveillance regimes implies a particular way to collect information and data, while also suggesting methodological challenges and the need for a specific manner in which to do Surveillance Studies in Latin America.

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“…Typically, these actors include, for instance, politicians striving for electoral success, traders of illicit goods fending off competitors or criminal investigations, and further parties who seek to take vengeance, pursue gains, impose authority, or secure territorial dominion over urban areas (see Araujo 2019; Arias and Barnes 2017). These networks can also be understood as emerging from “clandestine connections” in Auyero’s (2010) sense, as they skilfully elude broader visibility and public accountability (see also Auyero and Mahler 2011). Third, these hybrid entanglements demonstrate how the parapolice practices thus fostered by institutional affinities and clandestine connections can be mobilised as part of embodied political and economic projects that transcend individual parapolice actors’ immediate material or territorial interests.…”

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Necropolitics Beyond the Exception: Parapolicing, Milícia Urbanism, and the Assassination of Marielle Franco in Rio de Janeiro

Hutta

2022

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Engaging with the assassination of black city councillor Marielle Franco, the paper discusses how “milícia urbanism”, a formation of power and capital accumulation driven by parapolice networks, intensifies the necropolitical governance of Rio de Janeiro. Specifically, this necropolitics is characterised by liaisons among armed, political, institutional and economic actors that enable acts of violence with impunity, aggravating the conditions of violence for subaltern populations. Dialoguing with the Black Studies debate on necropolitics and works on violent democracies, the paper situates milícia urbanism within a postcolonial genealogy of parapolicing. Ever since the colonial plantation, it is argued, parapolicing has been integral to a power technology that avoids sovereign accountability while serving white capital interests. Whereas previous accounts of necropolitics have centred on the sovereign exception, this genealogy furthers an understanding of necropolitics “beyond the exception”. The paper concludes that Marielle Franco’s black‐feminist politics has been vital to contestations of this necropolitics.

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(In)visible Connections and the Makings of Collective Violence

Cited by 19 publications

References 19 publications

Special issue: electoral fraud and manipulation in India and Pakistan

Special issue: electoral fraud and manipulation in India and Pakistan

Doing Surveillance Studies in Latin America: Social sorting in contexts of violence

Necropolitics Beyond the Exception: Parapolicing, Milícia Urbanism, and the Assassination of Marielle Franco in Rio de Janeiro

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