M Bonner
Biographic Data
| ID | 32916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Bonner |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bonner |
| SIGNATURE | BONNER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4942-0367 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Commitment to Compliance: The Discursive Challenge to Ending Enforced Disappearances in Democratic Argentina
Measuring absence: Narrative obstacles to counting contemporary enforced disappearances in Latin America
Statistics hold the potential to lend political urgency to otherwise seemingly isolated human rights abuses. Yet, despite the persistence of the problem, statistics on enforced disappearances in contemporary non-civil war Latin American democracies are rare. This article examines the available statistics found in the annual human rights reports of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the US State Department and assesses the narratives t…
What is punitive populism? A typology based in media communication
Punitive populism refers to political leaders’ use of tough-on-crime rhetoric and policies to win elections and popular support. Yet, this basic definition does not capture the range of ways the practice manifests itself. Refining the concept, this article identifies three key types of punitive populism: authoritarian, conflicted, and accountable. The typology highlights the intersecting importance of media systems and political ideology to the d…
Constructing police legitimacy during protests: Frames and consequences for human rights
Police legitimacy is a constructed concept. Theorists argue that legitimacy is achieved through police practices that conform to the law and societal expectations, and respect human rights. The challenge is that the distinction between acceptable and unacceptable police force requires interpretation. This article uses a qualitative frame analysis of leading Chilean newspapers to reveal how police and their supporters justified police actions in r…
Reclaiming citizenship from police violence
Police violence contributes to uneven experiences of citizenship. Identity often determines who is affected and the ability of loved ones to fight back. While reforms to the criminal justice system are important, I argue that police violence is best understood as situated within public contestations over the meaning and practice of citizenship. These are multilevel and interdependent contestations that occur at the interpersonal, discursive, and …
Surviving State Terror: Women's Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina
What democratic policing is … and is not
Democratic policing is a multidimensional, multilevel, and contested concept rooted in political ideology. It is not singular or politically neutral. I argue there are four typologies of democratic policing: right, centre-right, centre-left, and left. In Latin America, in the 1980s and 1990s, countries went through the dual processes of democratisation and the implementation of neoliberal economic policies. The latter increased inequality in weal…
Media and Punitive Populism inArgentina andChile
Punitive populism is common throughout Latin America. It involves political and public opinion support for more police officers, greater police autonomy, and tougher laws to punish crime-options that often perpetuate old police practices and resist police reform efforts. This article critically examines the role of the media in fostering punitive populism by examining the sources used by journalists. Comparing the 'most different' cases of Argent…
Policing Economic Growth: Mining, Protest, and State Discourse in Peru and Argentina
Since the 1980s, liberalized and newly stable markets have helped usher in an unprecedented mining boom across the Latin American region. However, despite the fact that this boom contributes to notable economic growth, protests in opposition to the expansion and practices of mining companies have also grown, often with violent results. How protests are policed matters, but more important for democracy is how state actors respond when violence is …
Rethinking debates on media and police reform in Argentina
Despite their documented involvement in the last military dictatorship, the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) has not undergone a substantial reform since the return of electoral democracy in 1983. In 2010, members of the PFA were accused of killing two protesters in Indoamericano Park. Media coverage of this incident led to a policy window for the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner government to pursue the first significant attempt to reform the PFA. T…
Violence, Policing, and Citizen (In)Security
Violence, Policing, and Citizen (In)Security Michelle D. Bonner (bio) Violent Democracies in Latin America. Edited by Enrique Desmond Arias and Daniel M. Goldstein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. vii + 324 $89.95 cloth. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 9780822346388. Fear and Crime in Latin America: Redefining State-Society Relations. By Lucía Dammert. New York: Routledge, 2012. Pp. xv + 179. $130.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780415522113. Outlawed: Between…
Never Again: Transitional Justice and Persistent Police Violence in Argentina
Journal Article ‘Never Again’: Transitional Justice and Persistent Police Violence in Argentina Get access Michelle D. Bonner Michelle D. Bonner * * Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 8, Issue 2, July 2014, Pages 235–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijt…
Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America. Jane S. Jaquette: Duke University Press, 2009
In the 1980s, when countries throughout Latin America began to transition from authoritarian rule, there was a great deal of optimism. It appeared to be a moment when democracy could be redefined in a way that was potentially more inclusive and substantive. Women, through human rights and feminist organizations, were prominent political actors in this transition, and it seemed likely that they would continue in this role
Policing Protest in Argentina and Chile
Despite the pervasiveness of electoral democracy in Latin America, the police continue to repress political protests. Why? Does the majority of the public support the repression of protests? If not, whom do they hold accountable, and how? Michelle Bonner offers a new perspective on police reform and democratic accountability by analyzing how people talk about the policing of protests in Argentina and Chile. Tracing the history of policing protest…
The Politics of Police Image in Chile
The Carabineros de Chile played an active role in the repression and leadership of the Pinochet regime, yet today, the police force is one of the most respected institutions in Chile. Few post-authoritarian democracies have been able to restore such esteem for their police as quickly. But what does respect mean? This study analyses the narratives of approximately 50 police experts in Chile. It finds that police experts regard the positive image o…
The Three R’s of Seeking Transitional Justice: Reparation, Responsibility, and Reframing in Canada and Argentina
In Canada an officially mandated truth commission inquiring into the forced assimilation and abuse of Indigenous children in state-organized and funded residential schools raises profound and in many ways quite novel questions about transitional justice concerning Indigenous peoples in advanced capitalist societies. This article compares the Canadian case with that of a quintessential transitional justice pioneer: Argentina. Focusing on the effor…
Media as Social Accountability: The Case of Police Violence in Argentina
This article examines the role of the media as a mechanism of social accountability. Adding to the work of Enrique Peruzzotti and Catalina Smulovitz, the article argues that the media act as a mechanism of social accountability by providing a forum for debate for a plurality of actors to establish who should be held accountable, what they should be held accountable for, and how they should be held accountable. An analysis of this role of the medi…
State Discourses, Police Violence and Democratisation in Argentina
Police violence is a persistent problem throughout Latin America despite the return of electoral democracy; it is pervasive and includes torture, murder and disappearances. Certainly institutional reforms aimed at changing police practice are important. However, it is equally important that state actors maintain a clear and relatively consistent discourse in favour of democratic policing. This article argues that, in the case of Argentina, state …
Applying the Concept of "Human Security" in Latin America: An Argentine Case Study
The United Nations Development Programme describes the concept of human security as potentially revolutionary. Yet what does the concept mean in the context of Latin America? This article analyzes three of the central arguments made in the literature on human security supporting the use of this concept over others. I assess these arguments in terms of their consistency with the Argentine experience, and I argue that historical context and concept…
Law and Injustice in Latin America
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Sustaining Human Rights: Women and Argentine Human Rights Organizations
"In this book Michelle Bonner reveals how the defense of human rights continues today, taking Argentina as her primary example (with comparison to Chile in the final chapter). Bonner shows that the role of women - viewed as protectors of the family - is key to understanding how human rights movements have evolved." "Based on extensive field research and providing a long historical view extending from colonial times to the present, this study comp…
Sustaining Human Rights: Women and Argentine Human Rights Organizations
The "disappearance" and torture of many people during the worst days of the authoritarian regimes that ruled many Latin American countries in the 1970s have been well documented and widely condemned as abuses of human rights. Less well known is what has become of the movements for human rights once democratic governments were restored in these countries. In this book, Michelle Bonner reveals how the defense of human rights continues today, taking…
Defining Rights in Democratization: The Argentine Government and Human Rights Organizations, 1983-2003
Defining the rights that must be protected in a democracy is an integral component of the process of democratization. In the case of Argentina, the definition of these rights results partly from important debates between human rights organizations (HROs) and the state. Argentine HROs have framed their demands for state protection of human rights in terms of the need to protect the family. Yet HROs' successes in using international courts as arbit…
State Discourses, Police Violence and Democratisation in Argentina
Police violence is a persistent problem throughout Latin America despite the return of electoral democracy; it is pervasive and includes torture, murder and disappearances. Certainly institutional reforms aimed at changing police practice are important. However, it is equally important that state actors maintain a clear and relatively consistent discourse in favour of democratic policing. This article argues that, in the case of Argentina, state …
Constructing police legitimacy during protests: Frames and consequences for human rights
Police legitimacy is a constructed concept. Theorists argue that legitimacy is achieved through police practices that conform to the law and societal expectations, and respect human rights. The challenge is that the distinction between acceptable and unacceptable police force requires interpretation. This article uses a qualitative frame analysis of leading Chilean newspapers to reveal how police and their supporters justified police actions in r…
Media and Punitive Populism inArgentina andChile
Punitive populism is common throughout Latin America. It involves political and public opinion support for more police officers, greater police autonomy, and tougher laws to punish crime-options that often perpetuate old police practices and resist police reform efforts. This article critically examines the role of the media in fostering punitive populism by examining the sources used by journalists. Comparing the 'most different' cases of Argent…
The Politics of Police Image in Chile
The Carabineros de Chile played an active role in the repression and leadership of the Pinochet regime, yet today, the police force is one of the most respected institutions in Chile. Few post-authoritarian democracies have been able to restore such esteem for their police as quickly. But what does respect mean? This study analyses the narratives of approximately 50 police experts in Chile. It finds that police experts regard the positive image o…
Defining Rights in Democratization: The Argentine Government and Human Rights Organizations, 1983-2003
Defining the rights that must be protected in a democracy is an integral component of the process of democratization. In the case of Argentina, the definition of these rights results partly from important debates between human rights organizations (HROs) and the state. Argentine HROs have framed their demands for state protection of human rights in terms of the need to protect the family. Yet HROs' successes in using international courts as arbit…
Rethinking debates on media and police reform in Argentina
Despite their documented involvement in the last military dictatorship, the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) has not undergone a substantial reform since the return of electoral democracy in 1983. In 2010, members of the PFA were accused of killing two protesters in Indoamericano Park. Media coverage of this incident led to a policy window for the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner government to pursue the first significant attempt to reform the PFA. T…
Never Again: Transitional Justice and Persistent Police Violence in Argentina
Journal Article ‘Never Again’: Transitional Justice and Persistent Police Violence in Argentina Get access Michelle D. Bonner Michelle D. Bonner * * Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 8, Issue 2, July 2014, Pages 235–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijt…
Media as Social Accountability: The Case of Police Violence in Argentina
This article examines the role of the media as a mechanism of social accountability. Adding to the work of Enrique Peruzzotti and Catalina Smulovitz, the article argues that the media act as a mechanism of social accountability by providing a forum for debate for a plurality of actors to establish who should be held accountable, what they should be held accountable for, and how they should be held accountable. An analysis of this role of the medi…
Applying the Concept of "Human Security" in Latin America: An Argentine Case Study
The United Nations Development Programme describes the concept of human security as potentially revolutionary. Yet what does the concept mean in the context of Latin America? This article analyzes three of the central arguments made in the literature on human security supporting the use of this concept over others. I assess these arguments in terms of their consistency with the Argentine experience, and I argue that historical context and concept…
What is punitive populism? A typology based in media communication
Punitive populism refers to political leaders’ use of tough-on-crime rhetoric and policies to win elections and popular support. Yet, this basic definition does not capture the range of ways the practice manifests itself. Refining the concept, this article identifies three key types of punitive populism: authoritarian, conflicted, and accountable. The typology highlights the intersecting importance of media systems and political ideology to the d…
Reclaiming citizenship from police violence
Police violence contributes to uneven experiences of citizenship. Identity often determines who is affected and the ability of loved ones to fight back. While reforms to the criminal justice system are important, I argue that police violence is best understood as situated within public contestations over the meaning and practice of citizenship. These are multilevel and interdependent contestations that occur at the interpersonal, discursive, and …
Defining Rights in Democratization: The Argentine Government and Human Rights Organizations, 1983-2003
Defining the rights that must be protected in a democracy is an integral component of the process of democratization. In the case of Argentina, the definition of these rights results partly from important debates between human rights organizations (HROs) and the state. Argentine HROs have framed their demands for state protection of human rights in terms of the need to protect the family. Yet HROs' successes in using international courts as arbit…
Sustaining Human Rights: Women and Argentine Human Rights Organizations
"In this book Michelle Bonner reveals how the defense of human rights continues today, taking Argentina as her primary example (with comparison to Chile in the final chapter). Bonner shows that the role of women - viewed as protectors of the family - is key to understanding how human rights movements have evolved." "Based on extensive field research and providing a long historical view extending from colonial times to the present, this study comp…
Sustaining Human Rights: Women and Argentine Human Rights Organizations
The "disappearance" and torture of many people during the worst days of the authoritarian regimes that ruled many Latin American countries in the 1970s have been well documented and widely condemned as abuses of human rights. Less well known is what has become of the movements for human rights once democratic governments were restored in these countries. In this book, Michelle Bonner reveals how the defense of human rights continues today, taking…
Applying the Concept of "Human Security" in Latin America: An Argentine Case Study
The United Nations Development Programme describes the concept of human security as potentially revolutionary. Yet what does the concept mean in the context of Latin America? This article analyzes three of the central arguments made in the literature on human security supporting the use of this concept over others. I assess these arguments in terms of their consistency with the Argentine experience, and I argue that historical context and concept…
Law and Injustice in Latin America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Media as Social Accountability: The Case of Police Violence in Argentina
This article examines the role of the media as a mechanism of social accountability. Adding to the work of Enrique Peruzzotti and Catalina Smulovitz, the article argues that the media act as a mechanism of social accountability by providing a forum for debate for a plurality of actors to establish who should be held accountable, what they should be held accountable for, and how they should be held accountable. An analysis of this role of the medi…
State Discourses, Police Violence and Democratisation in Argentina
Police violence is a persistent problem throughout Latin America despite the return of electoral democracy; it is pervasive and includes torture, murder and disappearances. Certainly institutional reforms aimed at changing police practice are important. However, it is equally important that state actors maintain a clear and relatively consistent discourse in favour of democratic policing. This article argues that, in the case of Argentina, state …
The Three R’s of Seeking Transitional Justice: Reparation, Responsibility, and Reframing in Canada and Argentina
In Canada an officially mandated truth commission inquiring into the forced assimilation and abuse of Indigenous children in state-organized and funded residential schools raises profound and in many ways quite novel questions about transitional justice concerning Indigenous peoples in advanced capitalist societies. This article compares the Canadian case with that of a quintessential transitional justice pioneer: Argentina. Focusing on the effor…
Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America. Jane S. Jaquette: Duke University Press, 2009
In the 1980s, when countries throughout Latin America began to transition from authoritarian rule, there was a great deal of optimism. It appeared to be a moment when democracy could be redefined in a way that was potentially more inclusive and substantive. Women, through human rights and feminist organizations, were prominent political actors in this transition, and it seemed likely that they would continue in this role
Policing Protest in Argentina and Chile
Despite the pervasiveness of electoral democracy in Latin America, the police continue to repress political protests. Why? Does the majority of the public support the repression of protests? If not, whom do they hold accountable, and how? Michelle Bonner offers a new perspective on police reform and democratic accountability by analyzing how people talk about the policing of protests in Argentina and Chile. Tracing the history of policing protest…
The Politics of Police Image in Chile
The Carabineros de Chile played an active role in the repression and leadership of the Pinochet regime, yet today, the police force is one of the most respected institutions in Chile. Few post-authoritarian democracies have been able to restore such esteem for their police as quickly. But what does respect mean? This study analyses the narratives of approximately 50 police experts in Chile. It finds that police experts regard the positive image o…
Violence, Policing, and Citizen (In)Security
Violence, Policing, and Citizen (In)Security Michelle D. Bonner (bio) Violent Democracies in Latin America. Edited by Enrique Desmond Arias and Daniel M. Goldstein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. Pp. vii + 324 $89.95 cloth. $24.95 paper. ISBN: 9780822346388. Fear and Crime in Latin America: Redefining State-Society Relations. By Lucía Dammert. New York: Routledge, 2012. Pp. xv + 179. $130.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780415522113. Outlawed: Between…
Never Again: Transitional Justice and Persistent Police Violence in Argentina
Journal Article ‘Never Again’: Transitional Justice and Persistent Police Violence in Argentina Get access Michelle D. Bonner Michelle D. Bonner * * Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Victoria, Canada. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Transitional Justice, Volume 8, Issue 2, July 2014, Pages 235–255, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijt…
Rethinking debates on media and police reform in Argentina
Despite their documented involvement in the last military dictatorship, the Argentine Federal Police (PFA) has not undergone a substantial reform since the return of electoral democracy in 1983. In 2010, members of the PFA were accused of killing two protesters in Indoamericano Park. Media coverage of this incident led to a policy window for the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner government to pursue the first significant attempt to reform the PFA. T…
Policing Economic Growth: Mining, Protest, and State Discourse in Peru and Argentina
Since the 1980s, liberalized and newly stable markets have helped usher in an unprecedented mining boom across the Latin American region. However, despite the fact that this boom contributes to notable economic growth, protests in opposition to the expansion and practices of mining companies have also grown, often with violent results. How protests are policed matters, but more important for democracy is how state actors respond when violence is …
Media and Punitive Populism inArgentina andChile
Punitive populism is common throughout Latin America. It involves political and public opinion support for more police officers, greater police autonomy, and tougher laws to punish crime-options that often perpetuate old police practices and resist police reform efforts. This article critically examines the role of the media in fostering punitive populism by examining the sources used by journalists. Comparing the 'most different' cases of Argent…
What democratic policing is … and is not
Democratic policing is a multidimensional, multilevel, and contested concept rooted in political ideology. It is not singular or politically neutral. I argue there are four typologies of democratic policing: right, centre-right, centre-left, and left. In Latin America, in the 1980s and 1990s, countries went through the dual processes of democratisation and the implementation of neoliberal economic policies. The latter increased inequality in weal…
Surviving State Terror: Women's Testimonies of Repression and Resistance in Argentina
What is punitive populism? A typology based in media communication
Punitive populism refers to political leaders’ use of tough-on-crime rhetoric and policies to win elections and popular support. Yet, this basic definition does not capture the range of ways the practice manifests itself. Refining the concept, this article identifies three key types of punitive populism: authoritarian, conflicted, and accountable. The typology highlights the intersecting importance of media systems and political ideology to the d…
Constructing police legitimacy during protests: Frames and consequences for human rights
Police legitimacy is a constructed concept. Theorists argue that legitimacy is achieved through police practices that conform to the law and societal expectations, and respect human rights. The challenge is that the distinction between acceptable and unacceptable police force requires interpretation. This article uses a qualitative frame analysis of leading Chilean newspapers to reveal how police and their supporters justified police actions in r…
Reclaiming citizenship from police violence
Police violence contributes to uneven experiences of citizenship. Identity often determines who is affected and the ability of loved ones to fight back. While reforms to the criminal justice system are important, I argue that police violence is best understood as situated within public contestations over the meaning and practice of citizenship. These are multilevel and interdependent contestations that occur at the interpersonal, discursive, and …
From Commitment to Compliance: The Discursive Challenge to Ending Enforced Disappearances in Democratic Argentina
Measuring absence: Narrative obstacles to counting contemporary enforced disappearances in Latin America
Statistics hold the potential to lend political urgency to otherwise seemingly isolated human rights abuses. Yet, despite the persistence of the problem, statistics on enforced disappearances in contemporary non-civil war Latin American democracies are rare. This article examines the available statistics found in the annual human rights reports of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the US State Department and assesses the narratives t…
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