
Selective Security in the War on Drugs
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Selective Security in the War on Drugs analyzes authoritarian neoliberalism in the war on drugs in Colombia and Mexico. It interprets the "security projects" of the 2000s-when the security provided by the state became ever more selective-as embedded in processes of land appropriation, transformed property relations, and global capital accumulation. By zooming in on security practices in Colombia and Mexico in that decade and juxtaposing the two contexts, this book offers a detailed analysis of the role of the state in violence. To what extent and for whom do states produce order and disorder? Which social forces support and drive such state practices?
Expanding the literature on authoritarian neoliberalism and the coloniality of state power-thus linking political economy to postcolonial approaches-the book builds a theoretical lens to study state security practices. Different social groups, enjoying differentiated access to the state, influenced the state discourse on crime to very different extents. Security practices-which oscillated between dispersed organization by a multiplicity of actors and institutionalization with the military-materialized as horrific insecurity for social groups thought of as disposable. In tendency, putting security centerstage disabled dissent. The "security projects" exacerbated contradictions driven by a particular economic model and simultaneously criminalized precisely those that this model had already radically disadvantaged.
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Chapter 1: Selective Security, the Coloniality of State Power, and Dispersed Coercion
Chapter 2: Wielding Power: Class, Race, and Politics
Chapter 3: Supporting Repression: The Coloniality of Dispersed Coercion
Chapter 4: Blurred Boundaries: A Continuum of Legal-Illegal Practices
Chapter 5: Security Narratives: Generals, Patrones, and Criminals
Chapter 6: Selective Security: Unstable Alliances,(Il)Legal Lawmaking, and the Silencing of Dissent
Chapter 7: The Law, the Land, and the Gun: The Coloniality of State Power in Making Private Property
Chapter 8: Enduring Violence
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