Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico The Other Half of the Centaur

Name: Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico The Other Half of the Centaur
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ISBN: 9780804781589

ISBN-10: 0804781583

ISBN-13: 9780804781589

Edition: 2012

Authors: Wil G. Pansters

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Mexico is currently undergoing a crisis of violence and insecurity that poses serious threats to democratic transition and rule of law. This is the first book to put these developments in the context of post-revolutionary state-making in Mexico and to show that violence in Mexico is not the result of state failure, but of state-making. While most accounts of politics and the state in recent decades have emphasized processes of transition, institutional conflict resolution, and neo-liberal reform, this volume lays out the increasingly important role of violence and coercion by a range of state and non-state armed actors. Moreover, by going beyond the immediate concerns of contemporary…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 5/30/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.25" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



List of Figures


List of Tables


Preface and Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


About the Contributors



Introduction



Zones of State-Making: Violence, Coercion, and Hegemony in Twentieth-Century Mexico




Coercive Pillars of State-Making: Borders, Policing, and Army



States, Borders, and Violence: Lessons from the U.S.-Mexican Experience




Policing and Regime Transition: From Postauthoritarianism to Populism to Neoliberalism




Who Killed Crispï¿½n Aguilar? Violence and Order in the Postrevolutionary Countryside




In the Gray Zone: Drugs, Violence, Globalization, and the State



Narco-Violence and the State in Modern Mexico




States of Violence: State-Crime Relations in Mexico




Policing New Illegalities: Piracy, Raids, and Madrinas




State-Making and Violence in Society: Corporatism, Clientelism, and Indigenous Communities



The Rise of Gangsterism and Charrismo: Labor Violence and the Postrevolutionary Mexican State




Political Practice, Everyday Political Violence, and Electoral Processes During the Neoliberal Period in Mexico




Violence and Reconstitution in Mexican Indigenous Communities




Comparative Conclusions



New Violence, Insecurity, and the State: Comparative Reflections on Latin America and Mexico



Notes


Index