The Punitive City: Privatised Policing and Protection in Neoliberal Mexico - Brossura

Mller, Markus-michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1783606967 ISBN 13: 9781783606962

Casa editrice: Zed Books, 2016

Riassunto

Mexico—a country whose name has become synonymous with drugs, crime, violence, and insecurity. While global media fascination and academic interest has been fixated on the drug war, however, an equally dangerous threat has emerged—the privatization of the police and security force.
 
In The Punitive City, Markus-Michael Müller explores how local political dynamics have played a huge part in Mexico’s chronic instability. Encompassing a wider context of urbanized neoliberalism and democratization of local politics, Müller closely examines the new reality of extreme security privatization sweeping the country and the contradictory responses on this phenomenon from politicians, activists, and residents. Alarmingly, his research discovers that there is a political protection racket emerging in the region due to the rise of privatized security and gated communities, leading to increased exclusion and violence towards those on the socio-economic margins. Side-stepping the drug war discourse that typically dominates Mexico, The Punitive City deftly tackles the problems of inequality and uneven development spreading across Latin America.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Markus-Michael Müller is an activist and professor of Latin American politics at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Zed Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1783606967
• ISBN 13: 9781783606962
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 179