Outlawed
Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City
1st Edition
Published on 21. August 2012
344 pages
978-0-8223-9560-7 (ISBN)
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An ethnography examining how indigenous residents of crime-ridden, marginalized neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance human rights with their need for safety and security.
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Daniel M. Goldstein is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He is the author of The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia and a coeditor of Violent Democracies of Latin America, both also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
1. Security, Rights, and the Law in Evo's Bolivia 1
2. Getting Engaged: Reflections on an Activist Anthropology 35
3. The Phantom State: Law and Ordering on the Urban Margins 77
4. Exorcising Ghosts: Managing Insecurity in Uhspa Uhspa 121
5. Community Justice and the Creative Imagination 167
6. Inhuman Rights? Violence at the Nexus of Rights and Security 203
7. An Uncertain Anthropology 239
Notes 257
References 281
Index 305
1. Security, Rights, and the Law in Evo's Bolivia 1
2. Getting Engaged: Reflections on an Activist Anthropology 35
3. The Phantom State: Law and Ordering on the Urban Margins 77
4. Exorcising Ghosts: Managing Insecurity in Uhspa Uhspa 121
5. Community Justice and the Creative Imagination 167
6. Inhuman Rights? Violence at the Nexus of Rights and Security 203
7. An Uncertain Anthropology 239
Notes 257
References 281
Index 305
