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Organized Crime and Layers of Control in Outlawed Territories
Thu, May 28, 12:00 to 1:45pm, TBASession Submission Type: Panel
Abstract
Drawing on ethnographic research in Mexico and Guatemala, these papers examine how criminal organizations and the state cohabit in spaces of violence and crime. They uncover an active and adaptive presence on the part of the state precisely where older rubrics of extra-legal ‘parallel’ governance would have it most glaringly absent. Yet this presence does not displace the effective rule of criminal organizations and gangs in these areas. How are apparently irreconcilable interests negotiated in these outlawed territories? How does this palimpsestual sovereignty play out on the ground in spaces where sources and levels of control are superimposed and muddled?
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The Pacification of Ciudad Juarez: Overlapping Authorities and the Stabilization of Violence in the Murder Capital - Michael J Wolff, University of New Mexico
Behind Enemy Lines? The Mara and the Military in a Guatemalan Barrio - Katherine E Saunders-Hastings, University of Oxford
Explicaciones sobre las “contrainsurgencias” en América Latina: los casos de Colombia, Perú y El Salvador - Javier F Torres Preciado, Universidad de los Andes
How States Shape Organized Crime: The Other Side of Mexican Democracy - Yulia Vorobyeva, University of Miami
Las violencias y el Estado en El Salvador: desde la violencia politica hacia la violencia multifactorial - Cecilia Gosso, Università degli Studi di Torino