Add to ORKGIn its Latin American context, the term lynching refers to the extrajudicial killing of an alleged criminal by a large group and is often perceived as spontaneous mob violence. Utilizing Giorgio Agamben\u27s notion of the \u27state of exception,\u27 I argue that lynching occurs in particular spaces in which the norms of law and actual practice are decisively separated, and communities are imagined by the state as killable bodies rather than citizens. In response, lynching is a paradoxical and deeply political act; it serves as both a rejection of the state and a demand for inclusion in the benefits of citizenship. A higher level of citizen security can be realized only through the integration of state level security initiatives with l...
Since 2015, there have been over a hundred instances of mob-lynching. Many of these incidents victim...
Latin America has experienced a serious increase in public punitiveness in the past decades. Althoug...
From 1960 to 1996, Guatemala went through one of the longest and bloodiest civil wars in Latin Ameri...
Vigilante justice has become an increasingly prominent phenomenon in Bolivia and throughout the worl...
Lynching in Bolivia has been portrayed as a largely routinized and primarily urban occurrence that i...
Lynching in Bolivia has been portrayed as a largely routinized and primarily urban occurrence that i...
In this work one has the intention of discussing the relationship between the Modernity and the sear...
This thesis analyses lynching in Mexico by seeking to answer two main questions: (i) Can lynching be...
The lynching of presumed criminals is an increasingly common phenomenon in the poor peri- urban area...
This book grounds an understanding of lynching as an increasingly globalised phenomenon through an e...
When the Guatemalan state created the Civil Patrol System (PAC) in the early eighties it cynically d...
O estudo de quatro casos de linchamento ocorridos em bairros populares de grandes cidades brasileira...
In subjective perception and objective fact, many Latin American countries have experienced an epide...
In 2012 two men were lynched in Bolivia, first because there is an illicit market for Bolivian cultu...
En 2004, los alcaldes de dos municipalidades de la región aimara de los Andes fueron linchados en la...
Since 2015, there have been over a hundred instances of mob-lynching. Many of these incidents victim...
Latin America has experienced a serious increase in public punitiveness in the past decades. Althoug...
From 1960 to 1996, Guatemala went through one of the longest and bloodiest civil wars in Latin Ameri...
Vigilante justice has become an increasingly prominent phenomenon in Bolivia and throughout the worl...
Lynching in Bolivia has been portrayed as a largely routinized and primarily urban occurrence that i...
Lynching in Bolivia has been portrayed as a largely routinized and primarily urban occurrence that i...
In this work one has the intention of discussing the relationship between the Modernity and the sear...
This thesis analyses lynching in Mexico by seeking to answer two main questions: (i) Can lynching be...
The lynching of presumed criminals is an increasingly common phenomenon in the poor peri- urban area...
This book grounds an understanding of lynching as an increasingly globalised phenomenon through an e...
When the Guatemalan state created the Civil Patrol System (PAC) in the early eighties it cynically d...
O estudo de quatro casos de linchamento ocorridos em bairros populares de grandes cidades brasileira...
In subjective perception and objective fact, many Latin American countries have experienced an epide...
In 2012 two men were lynched in Bolivia, first because there is an illicit market for Bolivian cultu...
En 2004, los alcaldes de dos municipalidades de la región aimara de los Andes fueron linchados en la...
Since 2015, there have been over a hundred instances of mob-lynching. Many of these incidents victim...
Latin America has experienced a serious increase in public punitiveness in the past decades. Althoug...
From 1960 to 1996, Guatemala went through one of the longest and bloodiest civil wars in Latin Ameri...