Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City (The Cultures and Practice of Violence)

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In Outlawed, Daniel M. Goldstein reveals how indigenous residents of marginal neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance security with rights. Feeling abandoned to the crime and violence that grip their communities, they once in a while turn to vigilante practices, including lynching, to apprehend and punish suspected criminals. Goldstein describes those on this precarious position as “outlawed”: not safe from crime by the law but forced to comply with legal measures in other areas in their lives, their solutions to protection criminalized at the same time as their needs for security are ignored. He chronicles the complications of the government’s attempts to supply greater rights to indigenous peoples, including a new constitution that recognizes “community justice.” He also examines how state definitions of indigeneity ignore the existence of marginal neighborhoods, continuing long-standing exclusionary practices. The lack of confidence felt by the impoverished residents of Cochabamba—and, more broadly, by the urban poor during Bolivia and Latin The usa—remains. Outlawed illuminates the complex interconnections between differing definitions of security and human rights on the local, national, and global levels.
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