The new war on the poor the production of insecurity in Latin America / John Gledhill.

Contents Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Securitization, the state and capitalism -- Violence, urban development and the privatization of public power in Brazil -- Pacifying the urban periphery: a case study of the Bahian Upp -- State transformations, illegal economies and counter-insurgency in Mexico -- Paramilitaries, autodefenses and the pacification of Michoacán -- Achieving human security: the contradictions of repressive intervention -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract Links the experiences of labor migrants crossing Latin America's international borders, indigenous Mexicans defending their territories against capitalist mega-projects, drug wars and paramilitary violence, Afro-Brazilians living on the urban periphery of Salvador, and farmers and business people tired of paying protection to criminal mafias. John Gledhill looks at how and why governments are failing to provide security to disadvantaged citizens while all too often painting them as a menace to the rest of society simply for being poor.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
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