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Uneven Landscapes of Violence
Geographies of Law and Accumulation in Mexico
Series: - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 172
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Winner of the 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award
In contrast to analyses that view systemic violence in Mexico as simply the result of drugs and criminality, a deviation of a well-functioning market economy and/or a failing and corrupt state, Muñoz MartÃnez argues in Uneven Landscapes of Violence that the nexus of criminality, illegality and violence is integral to neoliberal state formation. It was through this nexus that dispossession took place after 2000 in the form of forced displacement, extorsion and private appropriation of public funds along with widespread violence by state forces and criminal groups. The emphasis of the neoliberal agenda on the rule of law to protect private property and contracts further reshaped the boundaries between legality and illegality, concealing the criminal and violent origins of economic gain.
In contrast to analyses that view systemic violence in Mexico as simply the result of drugs and criminality, a deviation of a well-functioning market economy and/or a failing and corrupt state, Muñoz MartÃnez argues in Uneven Landscapes of Violence that the nexus of criminality, illegality and violence is integral to neoliberal state formation. It was through this nexus that dispossession took place after 2000 in the form of forced displacement, extorsion and private appropriation of public funds along with widespread violence by state forces and criminal groups. The emphasis of the neoliberal agenda on the rule of law to protect private property and contracts further reshaped the boundaries between legality and illegality, concealing the criminal and violent origins of economic gain.
Hepzibah Muñoz MartÃnez, Ph.D. (2008), York University, is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick. She has published several peer-reviewed articles on Mexicoâs political economy and violence including 'Criminal Violence and Social Control' in NACLA 47, 2014.
âAcknowledgements
âList of Maps and Images
1 Introduction: Violent State Formation and Accumulation in Mexico
â1 âLocating Criminality, Illegality and Violence in Mexico
â2 âViolence, Criminal Groups, and the State
â3 âViolent Spatialities of State Formation and Uneven Development
â4 âLived Experience as Fieldwork
â5 âStructure of the Book
2 Economies and Politics of (Il)Legality, 1950â2012
â1 âLaw, Order, and Uneven Development under ISI
â2 âNeoliberal Prohibitions and Transgressions after 1980
â3 âGovernance, Neoliberal Consolidation, and Ambiguity after 2000
â4 âConclusion
3 The (Il)Legal Space of Global Trade and Finance
â1 â(Il)Legal Dispossession
â2 âUneven Development, Finance, and Money Laundering
â3 âLaw and Geographies of Power
â4 âConclusion
4 Urban (Dis)Orders
â1 âThe Politics of Silence and the Routinization of Fear
â2 âSpaces of (Il)Legality and Landscapes of Fear
â3 âUndemocratic Infrastructure
â4 âConclusion
5 Uneven Development and Politics of (In)Difference
â1 âUnevenness and the Production of (In)Difference
â2 âState Power, Criminal Groups and Accumulation through the âIllegalâ Other
â3 âConclusion
6 Social Space, Law, and Everyday Forms of Resistance
â1 âStreets of Hope
â2 âPlaces of Terror and Human Rights as Labor Rights
â3 âStructured Coherence, Collective Bargaining and Transcripts of Labor
â4 âConclusion
7 Conclusion: Geographies of State, Accumulation, and the Law
âReferences
âIndex
âList of Maps and Images
1 Introduction: Violent State Formation and Accumulation in Mexico
â1 âLocating Criminality, Illegality and Violence in Mexico
â2 âViolence, Criminal Groups, and the State
â3 âViolent Spatialities of State Formation and Uneven Development
â4 âLived Experience as Fieldwork
â5 âStructure of the Book
2 Economies and Politics of (Il)Legality, 1950â2012
â1 âLaw, Order, and Uneven Development under ISI
â2 âNeoliberal Prohibitions and Transgressions after 1980
â3 âGovernance, Neoliberal Consolidation, and Ambiguity after 2000
â4 âConclusion
3 The (Il)Legal Space of Global Trade and Finance
â1 â(Il)Legal Dispossession
â2 âUneven Development, Finance, and Money Laundering
â3 âLaw and Geographies of Power
â4 âConclusion
4 Urban (Dis)Orders
â1 âThe Politics of Silence and the Routinization of Fear
â2 âSpaces of (Il)Legality and Landscapes of Fear
â3 âUndemocratic Infrastructure
â4 âConclusion
5 Uneven Development and Politics of (In)Difference
â1 âUnevenness and the Production of (In)Difference
â2 âState Power, Criminal Groups and Accumulation through the âIllegalâ Other
â3 âConclusion
6 Social Space, Law, and Everyday Forms of Resistance
â1 âStreets of Hope
â2 âPlaces of Terror and Human Rights as Labor Rights
â3 âStructured Coherence, Collective Bargaining and Transcripts of Labor
â4 âConclusion
7 Conclusion: Geographies of State, Accumulation, and the Law
âReferences
âIndex
All interested in the relationship between economic globalization, state power, illegality and violence, and those concerned with US-Mexico border and Mexican studies in the security and law enforcement fields.