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Securing the future with justice and dignity in Latin America 
Convenor:
John Gledhill (Manchester University)
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Location:
ATB G207
Start time:
12 April, 2013 at
Time zone: Europe/London
Session slots:
3

Short Abstract:

This panel invites analyses that consider what security means to different groups in society, how far and why they accept the securitization of social problems, what interests shape and profit from public security agendas, and the relationships between crime, violence, politics and economic change.

Long Abstract:

Despite differences of political orientation, most Latin American governments have declared improving public security a priority in recent years, with mixed results. Even supposed "success stories", such as Colombia's citizen security programs, or Rio de Janeiro's favela pacification, are losing some of their lustre with the passage of time. The cost in lives of Felipe Calderon's war against the Mexican drug cartels came to be seen as unacceptable by many citizens, particularly since cartel criminal activity diversified rather than diminished: but there have also been increases in homicide rates and other forms of violent crime in regions of Latin America that have seen greater advances in democratization and reduction of social inequality than Mexico. Latin American scenarios therefore raise challenging questions about what security means for politicians, policy makers, law enforcement officers, academic experts and citizens living in different class situations and urban and rural habitats. This panel invites contributions that look at the problem of security from the bottom-up as well as from the top-down, and at how different groups in society react to the politicized reframing of social problems as security problems, nationally and transnationally. Welcome, too, are papers on the relationships between politicians and criminal organizations and the political economy of security, ranging from the economic interests that influence public security operations, the explosive growth of private security services, the relationships between economic insecurity and other forms of social violence, and the ways patterns of social, inter-personal and domestic violence might be related to neoliberal market society.

Accepted papers:

Session 1