Introdução: a securização das cidades latino-americanas

Melgaço, Lucas; Botello, Nelson Arteaga

doi:10.1590/2175-3369.007.002.it01

urbe, Rev. Bras. Gest. Urbana

2015

DOI: 10.1590/2175-3369.007.002.it01

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Introdução: a securização das cidades latino-americanas

Lucas Melgaço

Nelson Arteaga Botello²

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Governing crime and violence in Latin America

Müller

2018

Global Crime

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The last two decades turned Latin America into one of the most violent regions in the world. While previously, violence in the region has predominantly been associated with state repression and military dictatorships, the "new violence" that emerged since the mid-1990s is predominantly criminal. Related research has been mostly problem-driven, implying that the focus has been on how to improve security governance in the region. The multiple ways in which governance itself is both shaped by as well as contributing to the pervasiveness of this "new violence," has remained uncharted. This article offers an analytical framework, inspired by the literature on governance, for assessing this issue. To this end, it highlights different modes and instances of governance with, by, and through crime (and violence) in the region. In doing so, the article offers a contextualization for this special issue as well as an overarching analytical framework for the individual contributions.

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Governing crime and violence in Latin America

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Assembling prevention: Technology, expertise and control in postwar Guatemala

Hochmüller

2023

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This article examines the technopolitics of prevention in postwar Guatemala. In the 2010s, experts and policymakers shifted security governance in Central America’s most populous country towards anticipation. Against the background of rising gang violence, they implemented a set of sociopolitical and techno-material measures – based on the latest crime-control technologies, new policing strategies and urban design methods – in Guatemala’s most violent municipalities. The stated goals were to reconstruct state sovereignty and to improve public security by strengthening community resilience and inducing positive behavioural change in ‘at-risk’ citizens. Zooming in on the case of Villa Nueva, the article examines the emergence and effects of Guatemala’s ‘prevention assemblage’. It demonstrates that this technopolitical project has failed, as prevention turned into a new layer of control that shifted responsibility to local communities, further securitized urban spaces and populations, and reproduced exclusionary and repressive security governance.

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