Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822353119)

In Outlawed, Daniel M. Goldstein reveals how indigenous residents of marginal neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance security with rights. Feeling abandoned to the crime and violence that grip their communities, they sometimes turn to vigilante practices, including lynching, to apprehend and punish suspected criminals. Goldstein describes those in this precarious position as "outlawed" not protected from crime by the law but forced to comply with legal measures in other areas of their lives, their solutions to protection criminalized while their needs for security are ignored. He chronicles the complications of the government's attempts to provide greater rights to indigenous peoples, including a new constitution that recognizes "community justice." He also examines how state definitions of indigeneity ignore the existence of marginal neighborhoods, continuing long-standing exclusionary practices. The insecurity felt by the impoverished residents of Cochabamba--and, more broadly, by the urban poor throughout Bolivia and Latin America--remains. Outlawed illuminates the complex interconnections between differing definitions of security and human rights at the local, national, and global levels.

Author: Daniel M. Goldstein
ISBN-10: 0822353113
ISBN-13: 9780822353119
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/21/2012
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d