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Policing the Revolution

The Transformation of Coercive Power and Venezuela's Security Landscape During Chavismo

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Buch | Hardcover
280 Seiten
2025
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-768083-4 (ISBN)
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Since the mid-2000s Venezuela has been ranked one of the most violent countries in the world as homicides and police violence skyrocketed. Much has been written about the country's turn to Chavismo but scholarship has ignored what will perhaps be the revolution's most important legacy: how Chavista policies transformed coercive power and the security landscape.

In Policing the Revolution, Rebecca Hanson provides the first in-depth analysis of policing and security policies during the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, focusing on the experiences of three groups: police officers, police reformers, and residents of neighborhoods most affected by violence. Drawing on ethnographic, interview, and survey research collected over ten years, she analyzes how security policies within the context of the pink tide and later turn to authoritarianism contributed to the expansion of lateral violence and the pluralization of non-state violent actors. Far from the always-already authoritarian project proposed by many scholars and pundits, Hanson shows that the Bolivarian Revolution was defined by highly contested and contrasting visions of security that resulted in a fragmented and inconsistent ordering of state and society. Moreover, by pairing the vantage point of street-level police officers with that of ordinary barrio residents, she provides a unique analysis of how insecurity during revolution was experienced "from below."

Rethinking the relationship between revolution, violence, and state-building, this book is essential reading to understand how and why violence increased so dramatically in Venezuela in the twenty-first century.

Rebecca Hanson is Assistant Professor at the University of Florida, with a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law and the Center for Latin American Studies and director of UF's International Ethnography Lab. Her research focuses on how policies and political changes that seek to reduce inequality and violence end up contributing to these problems and how changing modalities of violence in the 21st century affect state building and capacity, with a specific focus on policing. She is the coauthor of Harassed: Gender, Bodies, and Ethnographic Research (2019, with Patricia Richards).

List of Illustrations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Research Design, Methods, and Embodied Ethnography
Chapter 3: Reform and its Discontents
Chapter 4: Securing the Revolution Part I
Chapter 5: Malandros Uniformados: Masculinity, Marginalization, Insecurity, and Attitudes on Police Violence
Chapter 6: The New Socialist Mother and Her Fight against Crime
Chapter 7: Caiga quien Cagia: Systematic Killing in Maduro's Venezuela
Chapter 8: Securing the Revolution Part II
Chapter 9: Conclusion
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Global and Comparative Ethnography
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 20 mm
Gewicht 484 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Strafverfahrensrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-19-768083-6 / 0197680836
ISBN-13 978-0-19-768083-4 / 9780197680834
Zustand Neuware
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