Gema Santamaría and Luis Herrán present a paper in the panel ¨The Politics and Publics of Violence in 20th and 21st Century Latin America¨ at LASA
Janey Fellows Gema Santamaría and Luis Herrán present a paper in the panel:
¨The Politics and Publics of Violence in 20th and 21st Century Latin America¨ at LASA on May 31st, 2013.
Ley fuga as justice: The consensus around extrajudicial violence in twentieth-century Mexico
Pablo A Piccato Rodriguez (Columbia University)
Estado inerme y sociedad civil contenciosa: La lucha alrededor de la ‘justicia’ en Totonicapán
Daniel Alejandro Núñez Gálvez (University of Pittsburgh)
Bandits, Rebels and Outlaws: Anti-Communism and the Criminalization of the Enemy in Mexico and Colombia during the Cold War
Luis Alberto Herran Avila (The New School for Social Research)
Criminological Concerns: Ethnicity and Crime in Guatemala, 1920s-1940s
David R Carey, Jr. (University of Southern Maine)
The Publics of Lynching Violence in 1930s Mexico
Gema Karina Santamaria Balmaceda (New School for Social Research)
Chair: David R Carey, Jr. (University of Southern Maine)
Discussant: Angelica Duran Martinez (Brown University)
Session Organizer: Gema Karina Santamaria Balmaceda (New School for Social Research)
Abstract
This panel will analyze the politics and publics of violence in 20th and 21st century Latin America. The term politics refers to the discourses, conflicts, and policies that violence and crime generate amongst different social and political groups. Conversely, the notion of publics denotes the multiple audiences that take part in the debates, representations, and meanings of so-called criminal and violent conducts. Whereas traditional approaches have focused on the cultural or social causes behind violence and crime in Latin America, in this panel we will explore their effects and the way they circulate within a given social and political community.