Download or read book Sociolog a de la violencia en Am rica Latina written by Roberto Briceño-León and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Se reúne trabajos del autor que ofrecen una comprensión de los fenómenos violentos desde una perspectiva sociológica.

Download or read book VIOLENCIA SOCIAL Y FILIAL EN AM RICA LATINA Perspectivas psicoanal ticas written by Alejandra Mejía and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patricia AlkolombrePaulina Beltrán HolguínTeresa del BosqueAlicia Beatriz Dorado de LisondoMaría Fernanda García Rojas AlarcónTeresa LartigueJulia LauzonHenry Rafael Márquez-Castro J. Martín Maldonado-DuránAlejandra Mejía SantosMaría del Socorro Ortiz CastellanosSolaine Pérez-PolancoMaría del Pilar RodríguezAurora Romano MussaliEva RotenbergArianne Suárez-LagoNancy Tame AyubAriadna Vázquez TenorioGraciela Villarreal BrenaJuan Vives RocabertEs de celebrar la edición de este nuevo libro de COWAP, sobre un tema imprescindible como es la "Violencia social y filial en América Latina. Perspectivas psicoanalíticas". Digo que es un tema imprescindible en nuestra región ya que está atravesada por crisis sociales, económicas, políticas y en estos últimos años se han sumado las crisis migratorias. Son todos escenarios de una enorme complejidad en los que se desatan violencias de distinto tipo y se hacen presentes en nuestra práctica clínica a través del sufrimiento, la incertidumbre y la vulnerabilidad. Contar con un abordaje psicoanalítico a través de los distintos capítulos que conforman este libro aporta mucha riqueza y nos permite seguir pensando y profundizando. En este sentido los dos ejes temáticos que orientan esta obra tal como lo plantearon las compiladoras: la violencia social y filial son muy significativos ya que apuntan a temas que hacen a las parentalidades y sus vínculos entre lo social y lo individual, ambos interdependientes. Así como decimos que todo texto tiene un contexto, en este caso los trabajos presentes en esta obra tienen como contexto la realidad Latinoamericana en su diversidad y complejidad.Es un libro que aporta elementos valiosos para pensar desde el psicoanálisis las complejas relaciones entre lo social y las subjetividades, nos invita a reflexionar sobre temas de mucha actualidad y que nos interpelan en nuestra práctica clínica tanto privada como en ámbitos públicos.Patricia AlkolombreCo-Chair de COWAP por Latinoamérica

Download or read book Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America written by Maria Helena Rueda and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes contributions of scholars from various fields - the social sciences, journalism, the humanities and the arts - whose work offers insightful and innovative ways to understand the devastating and unprecedented forms of violence currently experienced in Latin America. As an interdisciplinary endeavor, it offers an array of perspectives that contribute to ongoing debates in the study of violence in the region.

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Violence in Latin American Literature written by Pablo Baisotti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook brings together essays from an impressive group of well-established and emerging scholars from all around the world, to show the many different types of violence that have plagued Latin America since the pre-Colombian era, and how each has been seen and characterized in literature and other cultural mediums ever since. This ambitious collection analyzes texts from some of the region's most tumultuous time periods, beginning with early violence that was predominately tribal and ideological in nature; to colonial and decolonial violence between colonizers and the native population; through to the political violence we have seen in the postmodern period, marked by dictatorship, guerrilla warfare, neoliberalism, as well as representations of violence caused by drug trafficking and migration. The volume provides readers with literary examples from across the centuries, showing not only how widespread the violence has been, but crucially how it has shaped the region and evolved over time.

Download or read book Law and Society in Latin America written by Cesar Garavito and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, legal thought and practice in Latin America have changed dramatically: new constitutions or constitutional reforms have consolidated democratic rule, fundamental innovations have been introduced in state institutions, social movements have turned to law to advance their causes, and processes of globalization have had profound effects on legal norms and practices. Law and Society in Latin America: A New Map offers the first systematic assessment by leading Latin American socio-legal scholars of the momentous transformations in the region. Through an interdisciplinary and comparative lens, contributors analyze the central advances and dilemmas of contemporary Latin American law. Among them are pioneering jurisprudence and legal mobilization for the fulfillment of socioeconomic rights in a highly unequal region, the rise of multicultural constitutionalism and legal struggles around identity politics, the globalization of legal education and practice, tensions between developmental policies and environmental justice, and the emergence of a regional human rights system. These and other processes have not only radically altered the institutional landscape of the region, but also produced academic and practical innovations that are of global interest and defy conventional accounts of Latin American law inherited from law-and-development studies. Painting a portrait of the new Latin American legal thought for an international audience, Law and Society in Latin America: A New Map will be of particular interest to students of comparative law, legal mobilization, and Latin American politics.

Download or read book Violence and Resilience in Latin American Cities written by Kees Koonings and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are Latin American cities amongst the most violent in the world? Over the past decades Latin America has not only become the most urbanised of the regions of the so-called global South, it has also been the scene of the urbanisation of poverty and exclusion. Overall regional homicides rates are the highest in the world, a fact closely related to the spread and use of firearms by male youths, who are frequently involved in local and translocal forms of organised crime. In response, governments and law enforcements agencies have been facing mounting pressure to address violence through repressive strategies, which in turn has led to a number of consequences: law enforcement is often based on excessive violence and the victimisation of entire marginal populations. Thus, the dynamics of violence have generated a widespread perception of insecurity and fear. Featuring much original fieldwork across a broad array of case studies, this cutting edge volume focuses on questions not only of crime, insecurity and violence but also of Latin American cities’ ability to respond to these problems in creative and productive ways.

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America written by Xochitl Bada and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sociology of Latin America, established in the region over the past eighty years, is a thriving field whose major contributions include dependence theory, world-systems theory, and historical debates on economic development, among others. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Latin America provides research essays that introduce the readers to the discipline's key areas and current trends, specifically with regard to contemporary sociology in Latin America, as well as a collection of innovative empirical studies deploying a variety of qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The essays in the Handbook are arranged in eight research subfields in which scholars are currently making significant theoretical and methodological contributions: Sociology of the State, Social Inequalities, Sociology of Religion, Collective Action and Social Movements, Sociology of Migration, Sociology of Gender, Medical Sociology, and Sociology of Violence and Insecurity. Due to the deterioration of social and economic conditions, as well as recent disruptions to an already tense political environment, these have become some of the most productive and important fields in Latin American sociology. This roiling sociopolitical atmosphere also generates new and innovative expressions of protest and survival, which are being explored by sociologists across different continents today. The essays included in this collection offer a map to and a thematic articulation of central sociological debates that make it a critical resource for those scholars and students eager to understand contemporary sociology in Latin America.

Download or read book Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South written by Jennifer Erin Salahub and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate to and interact with poverty and inequalities. Drawing on the findings of an ambitious 5-year, 15-project research programme supported by Canada’s International Development Research Centre and the UK’s Department for International Development, the book explores what works, and what doesn't, to prevent and reduce violence in urban centres. Cities in developing countries are often seen as key drivers of economic growth, but they are often also the sites of extreme violence, poverty, and inequality. The research in this book was developed and conducted by researchers from the Global South, who work and live in the countries studied; it challenges many of the assumptions from the Global North about how poverty, violence, and inequalities interact in urban spaces. In so doing, the book demonstrates that accepted understandings of the causes of and solutions to urban violence developed in the Global North should not be imported into the Global South without careful consideration of local dynamics and contexts. Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South concludes by considering the broader implications for policy and practice, offering recommendations for improving interventions to make cities safer and more inclusive. The fresh perspectives and insights offered by this book will be useful to scholars and students of development and urban violence, as well as to practitioners and policymakers working on urban violence reduction programmes.

Download or read book Violencia urbana y seguridad ciudadana en Am rica Latina written by Carlos Medina Gallego and published by Universidad Nacional de Colombia. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En este libro presenta una revisión de la situación de inseguridad y violencia que se desarrolla en las ciudades de América Latina, así como una revisión de las políticas públicas de seguridad y las acciones institucionales emprendidas por los gobiernos locales para superar los problemas de inseguridad en las dieciocho ciudades del continente que se han tomado como referentes en la investigación. No es el interés de la obra cuestionar la eficacia o no de las políticas y de su implementación, sino, más bien, revisar las posibilidades que estas ofrecen como prácticas de aprendizaje y enseñanza útiles para la disminución de la violencia y el tratamiento de la delincuencia común y organizada, en la ruta de la formulación de políticas públicas de seguridad ciudadana cada vez más eficientes.

Download or read book Juventud violencia y sociedad en Am rica Latina written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book More Money More Crime written by Marcelo Bergman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While worldwide crime is declining overall, criminality in Latin America has reached unprecedented levels that have ushered in social unrest and political turmoil. Despite major political and economic gains, crime has increased in every Latin American country over the past 25 years, currently making this region the most crime-ridden and violent in the world. Over the past two decades, Latin America has enjoyed economic growth, poverty and inequality reduction, rising consumer demand, and spreading democracy, but it also endured a dramatic outbreak of violence and property crimes. In More Money, More Crime, Marcelo Bergman argues that prosperity enhanced demand for stolen and illicit goods supplied by illegal rackets. Crime surged as weak states and outdated criminal justice systems could not meet the challenge posed by new profitably criminal enterprises. Based on large-scale data sets, including surveys from inmates and victims, Bergman analyzes the development of crime as a business in the region, and the inability-and at times complicity-of state agencies and officers to successfully contain it. While organized crime has grown, Latin American governments have lacked the social vision to promote sustainable upward mobility, and have failed to improve the technical capacities of law enforcement agencies to deter criminality. The weak state responses have only further entrenched the influence of criminal groups making them all the more difficult to dismantle. More Money, More Crime is a sobering study that foresees a continued rise in violence while prosperity increases unless governments develop appropriate responses to crime and promote genuine social inclusion.

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology Volume 1 written by Kathleen Odell Korgen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether a student, an instructor, a researcher, or just someone interested in understanding the roots of sociology and our social world, The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology, Volume 1 is for you. This first volume of the Handbook focuses on core areas of sociology, such as theory, methods, culture, socialization, social structure, inequality, diversity, social institutions, social problems, deviant behavior, locality, geography, the environment, and social change. It also explains how sociology developed in different parts of the world, providing readers with a perspective on how sociology became the global discipline it is today. Each essay includes a discussion of how the respective subfield contributes to the overall discipline and to society. Written by some of the most respected scholars, teachers, and public sociologists in the world, the essays are highly readable and authoritative.

Download or read book Social Theories of Urban Violence in the Global South written by Jennifer Erin Salahub and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While cities often act as the engines of economic growth for developing countries, they are also frequently the site of growing violence, poverty, and inequality. Yet, social theory, largely developed and tested in the Global North, is often inadequate in tackling the realities of life in the dangerous parts of cities in the Global South. Drawing on the findings of an ambitious five-year, 15-project research programme, Social Theories of Urban Violence in the Global South offers a uniquely Southern perspective on the violence–poverty–inequalities dynamics in cities of the Global South. Through their research, urban violence experts based in low- and middle-income countries demonstrate how "urban violence" means different things to different people in different places. While some researchers adopt or adapt existing theoretical and conceptual frameworks, others develop and test new theories, each interpreting and operationalizing the concept of urban violence in the particular context in which they work. In particular, the book highlights the links between urban violence, poverty, and inequalities based on income, class, gender, and other social cleavages. Providing important new perspectives from the Global South, this book will be of interest to policymakers, academics, and students with an interest in violence and exclusion in the cities of developing countries.

Download or read book Vulnerabilidad y violencia en Am rica Latina y el Caribe written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fractured Cities written by Dirk Kruijt and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable. From the paramilitary invasion of Medell¡n in Colombia, the booming wealth of crack dealers in Managua, Nicaragua and police corruption in Mexico City, to the glimmers of hope in Lima, this book provides a dynamic analysis of urban insecurity. Based on new empirical evidence, interviews with local people and historical contextualization, the authors attempts to shed light on the fault-lines which have appeared in Latin American society. Neoliberal economic policy, it is argued, has intensified the gulf between elites, insulated in gated estates monitored by private security firms, and the poor, who are increasingly mistrustful of state-sponsored attempts to impose order on their slums. Rather than the current trend towards government withdrawal, the situation can only be improved by co-operation between communities and police to build new networks of trust. In the end, violence and insecurity are inseparable from social justice and democracy.

Download or read book Mitos y realidades sobre la criminalidad en Am rica Latina written by Bernardo Kliksberg and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los cuadernos del presente imperfecto son una contribución al imprescindible debate que requiere la construcción de una sociedad democrática y solidaria en Guatemala Éste es un trabajo sobre una reunión en la Selva Lacandona convocada para hablar sobre el tema del tiempo y la revolución. Entre los invitados debemos mencionar a Mijaíl Bajtín y Walter Benjamín, en cuyas respectivas obras hay aportes significativos al tema. Los convocantes fueron los zapatistas de uno de los Caracoles. En la reunión se estableció un diálogo entre las las generaciones en lucha del presente y algunos representantes de las generaciones del pasado que lucharon y dejaron plasmada esa lucha en obras que son como cristales que guardan conocimientos importantes, los cuales solamente pueden ser alcanzados bajo la luz del presente. . . . Uno de los resultados de esa polifonía en la Selva Lacandona fue la conciencia de que la urgencia de lo nuevo por abrirse paso en el mundo envejecido y pervertido había sido el factor que movió a los organizadores a realizar la reunión. A eso, o a algo parecido, el señor judío con gafas, Walter Benjamín, le llamó constelación . También se dijo algo así como que el tiempo no corre en línea recta sino a tropezones, y que los golpes que le damos al tiempo de los de arriba curiosamente sacan la historia del carril en que el poder la pone a moverse. El poeta maya-guatemalteco Humberto Ak aval, expresa esta idea claramente: De vez en cuando_ camino al revés:_ es mi modo de recordar Si caminara sólo hacia delante,_ te podría contar_ como es el olvido .

Download or read book Coloniality of Power and Progressive Politics in Latin America written by Ronaldo Munck and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: