Violence, fear, and development in Latin America: a critical overview

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Further reading

On violence and development

• Arendt, H., 1969. On Violence. San Diego: Harvest/HBJ; 1969, A classic text which analyses the link between violence and power, suggesting that the former is often utilised as an attempted substitute for waning authority.
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• Escobar, A., 1995. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press; 1995, The author challenges ‘top–down’ strategies to ‘deliver’ development and provides a fundamental argument for a place-based and grassroots development agenda.
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• Gregory, D., and Pred, A., 2007. Gregory, D., and Pred, A., eds. Violent Geographies: Fear, Terror and Political Violence. London: Routledge; 2007, A recent and important collection of essays that introduce the imaginative and real geographies through which violent acts evolve.
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• Schmidt, B. E., and Schröder, I. W., 2001. Schmidt, B. E., and Schröder, I. W., eds. Anthropology of Violence and Conflict. London: Routledge; 2001, Wide-ranging essays which cover key aspects of confrontational and violent encounters.
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• Stanko, E. A., 1990. Everyday Violence: How Women and Men Experience Sexual and Physical Danger. London: Pandora Press; 1990, A highly influential text which shaped understanding of the way in which forms of violence are sexualised and gendered.
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• Stanko, E. A., 2003. Stanko, E. A., ed. The Meanings of Violence. London: Routledge; 2003, One of the most informative contemporary collections of the literature on violence.
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In the context of Latin America

• Cardoso, F. H., and Faletto, E., 1979. Dependency and Development in Latin America. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press; 1979, An important text which advances the pioneering work undertaken on dependency theory in the Latin American context.
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• Frank, A. G., 1969. Latin America: Underdevelopment or Revolution: Essays on the Development of Underdevelopment and Immediate Enemy. London: Monthly Review Press; 1969, Both of Frank's seminal texts shaped the way in which ideas of ‘the centre’ and ‘the periphery’ have dominated the world economy and continue to refute the logic of equality as a possible outcome of global market forces.
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• Green, L., 1999. Fear as a Way of Life: Mayan Widows in Rural Guatemala. New York, NY: Columbia University Press; 1999, Drawing on detailed empirical and eyewitness accounts, the author provides a close understanding of violence against indigenous peoples in Central America.
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• Kruijt, D., and Koonings, K., 1999. Kruijt, D., and Koonings, K., eds. Societies of Fear: The Legacy of Civil War, Violence and Terror in Latin America. New York, NY: St Martin's Press; 1999, An important and pioneering collection of case studies which cover key aspects of violence and crime in the region.
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• Moser, C. O. N., and McIlwaine, C., 2004. Encounters with Violence in Latin America: Urban Poor Perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala. London: Routledge; 2004, Comprehensive comparative analysis which unpicks the causes and effects of violence in two of the societies most often associated with everyday and endemic violence in the Americas.
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• Rotker, S., 2001. Rotker, S., ed. Citizens of Fear: Urban Violence in Latin America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press; 2001, A parallel and similarly incisive text to accompany the two preceding references. The collected essays provide a detailed assessment of how violence impinges on the rights of full citizenship.
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