Caroline Moser
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696788 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Moser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Moser |
| SIGNATURE | MOSER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2623-9020 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 997 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Gender Ideology of State Ibuism and Women’s Roles in Care Practices at the Rawa Panjang Waste Bank, Bojonggede, Bogor
This article examines women's involvement in community-based waste management through the Waste Bank program. It argues that women’s participation in managing waste banks reflects the state’s gender ideology, which reinforces the reproduction of female labor and caregiving roles within society. Applying Suryakusuma’s (2011) concept of state ibuism, this study explores women’s roles in the Waste Bank program in Rawa Panjang, Citayam, Bogor Regency…
Che' and Tania's socks: Bolivian recollections of an 'incorporated wife
In 1967 my husband, Brian Moser directed a film about the death of Che Guevara in Bolivia for UK Granada TV’s series World in Action (1963–1998), with me working alongside him, as an unpaid, non-unionized, member of the film crew. This Viewpoint article recollects my contribution to documenting this history-changing event, how I came to be there, and how my positionality as a wife meant that I was made invisible, or ‘invisibilised’. The meant tha…
From gender planning to gender transformation: Positionality, theory and practice in cities of the global South
This article reflects on my contribution as an urban feminist scholar-gender expert practitioner to Gender and Development (GAD) theory and practice in cities of the South in relation to my changing positionality within specific institutional contexts. My journey started in the 1980s with urban gender planning, conceptualised in the Development Planning Unit, a United Kingdom-based urban planning unit. After a ‘diversionary’ decade in the World B…
Mothers, daughters, fathers and sons: Intergenerational family social capital and inequalities in Guayaquil, Ecuador
This paper describes the role of intergenerational processes in increasing or reducing multidimensional inequality in Indio Guayas, a low-income peripheral settlement in Guayaquil, Ecuador. It also examines the importance of family social capital, irrespective of spatial location, as against household social capital in these processes. This longitudinal case study included a dataset on trends from 1978 through 1992 to 2004, in-depth studies over …
Gender transformation in a new global urban agenda: Challenges for Habitat III and beyond
The 2016 Habitat III conference in Quito provides a challenging opportunity to address widespread, persistent urban gender inequalities through the elaboration of a New Urban Agenda (NUA). To achieve the identified radical paradigm shift calls for critical reflection and clarification of the meaning of gender transformation as against gender mainstreaming, and the elaboration of a conceptual and operational framework that identifies urban pathway…
Asset planning for climate change adaptation: Lessons from Cartagena, Colombia
In studies of climate change vulnerability, an important constraint relates to the uncertainty of the climate projections that local governments need to estimate precisely the risks and impacts climate events have on different parts of a city. In addition, the lack of “downscaled”, or local, climate information makes it very difficult to compare how individual communities and households adapt to severe and extreme weather events and, more importa…
New frontiers in twenty-first century urban conflict and violence
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Building Inclusive Cities: Women's Safety and the Right to the City
Whitzman, Carolyn, Crystal Legacy, Caroline Andrew, Fran Klodawsky, Margaret Shaw, and Kalpana Viswanath (eds.) Building Inclusive Cities: Women's Safety and the Right to the City London and New Yo
Does Economic Crisis Always Harm International Migrants? Longitudinal Evidence from Ecuadorians in Barcelona
Current research on the impacts of the 2007 global economic crisis on international migration takes two different positions. Some studies emphasize the negative impacts while others are more positive. This article argues that these two positions offer simplistic interpretations which fail to take account of the complex micro‐level realities that determine migrant experiences. The article discusses how a small group of migrants from Guayaquil, Ecu…
Gender Planning and Development: Theory, Practice and Training
Gender planning is not an end in itself but a means by which women, through a process of empowerment, can emancipate themselves. Ultimately, its success depends on the capacity of women's organizations to confront subordination and create successful alliances which will provide constructive support in negotiating women's needs at the level of household, civil society, the state and the global system.Gender Planning and Development provides an int…
Mainstreaming women's safety in cities into gender-based policy and programmes
The importance of women's safety and security in cities throughout the world is now widely recognised. An extensive range of state and civil society institutions currently implement a range of cutting-edge ‘good practice’ policies, programmes, and projects to address this issue. This article raises two pertinent questions that inform the (re)conceptualisation of such programmes. First, is women's safety a separate ‘women's issue’, or is it one th…
Cancer note from the slums
This short note reports on the difficulties facing a community leader in Guayaquil, whom the author has known for more than 30 years, in getting and affording treatment for breast cancer. It serves as a reminder that low-income households in low- and middle-income nations face many of the same health risks from non-communicable diseases as higher-income groups, but cannot get appropriate treatment from public health care and cannot afford private…
Implementing urban participatory climate change adaptation appraisals: A methodological guideline
This paper provides conceptual and methodological guidelines for researchers seeking to undertake an urban participatory climate change adaptation appraisal (PCCAA), illustrated with examples from appraisals in Mombasa (Kenya) and Estelí (Nicaragua). It highlights the importance of hearing local people’s voices regarding incrementally worsening and often unrecorded severe weather. The conceptual framework distinguishes between the analysis of ass…
Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives: Assets and Poverty Reduction in Guayaquil, 1978-2004
Fifty years after Oscar Lewis's famous depiction of five Mexican families caught in a culture of poverty, Caroline Moser tells a very different story of five neighborhood women and their families strategically accumulating assets to escape poverty in the Ecuadoran city of Guayaquil. In Ordinary Families, Extraordinary Lives , Moser shows how a more sophisticated understanding of the complexities of asset accumulation as well as poverty itself can…
Gender mainstreaming since Beijing: A review of success and limitations in international institutions
The Beijing Platform for Action prioritised gender mainstreaming as the mechanism to achieve gender equality. A decade later, policy makers and practitioners are debating whether this has succeeded or failed. This article aims to contribute to this debate by reviewing progress made to date, through a review of gender mainstreaming policies in international development institutions. Categorising progress into three stages - adoption of terminology…
Has gender mainstreaming failed: A comment on international development agency experiences in the South
2005 marks a decade since governments across the world signed the Beijing Platform for Action (PfA) that endorsed a policy to promote gender equality and empower women. Gender mainstreaming was ide
Latin American Urban Violence as a Development Concern: Towards a Framework for Violence Reduction
Encounters with Violence in Latin America: Urban Poor Perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala
Latin America is both the world's most urbanized fastest developing regions, where the links between social exclusion, inequality and violence are clearly visible. The banal, ubiquitous nature of drug crime, robbery, gang and intra-family violence destabilizes countries' economies and harms their people and social structures.Encounters with Violence & Crime in Latin America explores the meaning of violence and insecurity in nine towns and cities …
Urban Violence and Insecurity: An Introductory Roadmap
Urban Violence and Insecurity: An Introductory Roadmap
IN 1992, WHILE I was living once again in the suburbios (low-income settlements) in Guayaquil, Ecuador, local community members explained to me how serious a problem local violence had become in their daily lives. Violent robbery on buses was so ubiquitous that, over a six-month period, one in five women had been attacked by young men armed with knives, machetes or hand guns. The streets were no longer safe after dark, so girls and young women we…
Drugs, alcohol and community tolerance: An urban ethnography from Colombia and Guatemala
Drug and alcohol abuse is identified increasingly in Latin America as a significant source of insecurity. Yet, there has been little research on consumption and on the social norms surrounding it. This paper explores the nature of drugs and alcohol consumption among urban poor communities in Colombia and Guatemala, where use is widespread. It also looks at levels of community tolerance of drug and alcohol use, and in particular at the complex way…
Drugs, alcohol and community tolerance: An urban ethnography from Colombia and Guatemala
Drug and alcohol abuse is identified increasingly in Latin America as a significant source of insecurity. Yet, there has been little research on consump- tion and on the social norms surrounding it. This paper explores the nature of drugs and alcohol consumption among urban poor communities in Colombia and Guatemala, where use is widespread. It also looks at levels of community tolerance of drug and alcohol use, and in particular at the complex w…
Poverty, violence and livelihood security in urban Colombia and Guatemala
Set within the context of re-conceptualizing poverty to emphasize its multidimensionality, this paper argues for the need to extend existing debates on livelihood security to incorporate notions of physical and personal security, manifest in the form of violence and conflict. In turn, it suggests that research on security should continue its shift in focus towards human security, especially at the micro-level. These arguments are based on primary…
Violence in a Post-Conflict Context: Urban Poor Perceptions from Guatemala
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Violence in a Post-Conflict ContextUrban Poor Perceptions from GuatemalaAuthors/Editors: Caroline Moser, Cathy McIlwaineCaroline Moser, Cathy McIlwainehttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-4836-1SectionsAboutPDF (2.3 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:The study documents how people living in poor urban communities in Guatemala perceive violence. Specifical…
Gender, conflict, and building sustainable peace: Recent lessons from Latin America
Latin American experiences of conflict and building sustainable peace have tended to show a clear neglect of a gender analysis of the impacts of conflict and the peace negotiations that end it, much to the detriment of many women and men affected by and involved in the civil conflicts that have ravaged the region during the last thirty years. What do Colombian women and men have to learn from these experiences? In May 2000, a workshop entitled 'L…
The asset vulnerability framework: Reassessing urban poverty reduction strategies
Gender planning in the third world: Meeting practical and strategic gender needs
Informal sector or petty commodity production: Dualism or dependence in urban development
Urban Violence and Insecurity: An Introductory Roadmap
IN 1992, WHILE I was living once again in the suburbios (low-income settlements) in Guayaquil, Ecuador, local community members explained to me how serious a problem local violence had become in their daily lives. Violent robbery on buses was so ubiquitous that, over a six-month period, one in five women had been attacked by young men armed with knives, machetes or hand guns. The streets were no longer safe after dark, so girls and young women we…
Latin American Urban Violence as a Development Concern: Towards a Framework for Violence Reduction
New frontiers in twenty-first century urban conflict and violence
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Has gender mainstreaming failed: A comment on international development agency experiences in the South
2005 marks a decade since governments across the world signed the Beijing Platform for Action (PfA) that endorsed a policy to promote gender equality and empower women. Gender mainstreaming was ide
Implementing urban participatory climate change adaptation appraisals: A methodological guideline
This paper provides conceptual and methodological guidelines for researchers seeking to undertake an urban participatory climate change adaptation appraisal (PCCAA), illustrated with examples from appraisals in Mombasa (Kenya) and Estelí (Nicaragua). It highlights the importance of hearing local people’s voices regarding incrementally worsening and often unrecorded severe weather. The conceptual framework distinguishes between the analysis of ass…
Gender transformation in a new global urban agenda: Challenges for Habitat III and beyond
The 2016 Habitat III conference in Quito provides a challenging opportunity to address widespread, persistent urban gender inequalities through the elaboration of a New Urban Agenda (NUA). To achieve the identified radical paradigm shift calls for critical reflection and clarification of the meaning of gender transformation as against gender mainstreaming, and the elaboration of a conceptual and operational framework that identifies urban pathway…
Urban social policy and poverty reduction
The paper describes the differences in the ways that social and economic policy perceive poverty and its underlying causes, and thus differences in how they define it, measure it and institute mechanisms to reduce it. It also highlights the many dimensions of poverty that economic policy ignores and considers the constraints that limit the effectiveness of current poverty reduction strategies
Asset planning for climate change adaptation: Lessons from Cartagena, Colombia
In studies of climate change vulnerability, an important constraint relates to the uncertainty of the climate projections that local governments need to estimate precisely the risks and impacts climate events have on different parts of a city. In addition, the lack of “downscaled”, or local, climate information makes it very difficult to compare how individual communities and households adapt to severe and extreme weather events and, more importa…
Why the Poor Remain Poor: The Experience of Bogotá Market Traders in the 1970s
The persistence of long-term poverty among sectors of the urban and rural population in less-developed countries (LDCs), as well as in the so-called developed world, has resulted in the formulation of a diversity of interpretations by theoreticians and policy-makers seeking to comprehend the life of the poor, and for political, economic, and moral reasons to develop solutions to alleviate poverty. Recognition of the failure of the Accelerated Gro…
The Dual Economy and Marginality Debate and the Contribution of Micro Analysis: Market Sellers in Bogotá
Does Economic Crisis Always Harm International Migrants? Longitudinal Evidence from Ecuadorians in Barcelona
Current research on the impacts of the 2007 global economic crisis on international migration takes two different positions. Some studies emphasize the negative impacts while others are more positive. This article argues that these two positions offer simplistic interpretations which fail to take account of the complex micro‐level realities that determine migrant experiences. The article discusses how a small group of migrants from Guayaquil, Ecu…
Drugs, alcohol and community tolerance: An urban ethnography from Colombia and Guatemala
Drug and alcohol abuse is identified increasingly in Latin America as a significant source of insecurity. Yet, there has been little research on consump- tion and on the social norms surrounding it. This paper explores the nature of drugs and alcohol consumption among urban poor communities in Colombia and Guatemala, where use is widespread. It also looks at levels of community tolerance of drug and alcohol use, and in particular at the complex w…
Poverty, violence and livelihood security in urban Colombia and Guatemala
Set within the context of re-conceptualizing poverty to emphasize its multidimensionality, this paper argues for the need to extend existing debates on livelihood security to incorporate notions of physical and personal security, manifest in the form of violence and conflict. In turn, it suggests that research on security should continue its shift in focus towards human security, especially at the micro-level. These arguments are based on primary…
From gender planning to gender transformation: Positionality, theory and practice in cities of the global South
This article reflects on my contribution as an urban feminist scholar-gender expert practitioner to Gender and Development (GAD) theory and practice in cities of the South in relation to my changing positionality within specific institutional contexts. My journey started in the 1980s with urban gender planning, conceptualised in the Development Planning Unit, a United Kingdom-based urban planning unit. After a ‘diversionary’ decade in the World B…
Access to Power: Politics and the Urban Poor in Developing Nations
Journal Article Access to Power: Politics and the Urban Poor in Developing Nations Get access Access to Power: Politics and the Urban Poor in Developing Nations. By Joan M. Nelson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1979. 463 pp. £17.20. Pb:£4.40. Caroline O. N. Moser Caroline O. N. Moser 1University College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 3, Summer 1…
Mothers, daughters, fathers and sons: Intergenerational family social capital and inequalities in Guayaquil, Ecuador
This paper describes the role of intergenerational processes in increasing or reducing multidimensional inequality in Indio Guayas, a low-income peripheral settlement in Guayaquil, Ecuador. It also examines the importance of family social capital, irrespective of spatial location, as against household social capital in these processes. This longitudinal case study included a dataset on trends from 1978 through 1992 to 2004, in-depth studies over …
Mainstreaming women's safety in cities into gender-based policy and programmes
The importance of women's safety and security in cities throughout the world is now widely recognised. An extensive range of state and civil society institutions currently implement a range of cutting-edge ‘good practice’ policies, programmes, and projects to address this issue. This article raises two pertinent questions that inform the (re)conceptualisation of such programmes. First, is women's safety a separate ‘women's issue’, or is it one th…
Cancer note from the slums
This short note reports on the difficulties facing a community leader in Guayaquil, whom the author has known for more than 30 years, in getting and affording treatment for breast cancer. It serves as a reminder that low-income households in low- and middle-income nations face many of the same health risks from non-communicable diseases as higher-income groups, but cannot get appropriate treatment from public health care and cannot afford private…
Gender, conflict, and building sustainable peace: Recent lessons from Latin America
Latin American experiences of conflict and building sustainable peace have tended to show a clear neglect of a gender analysis of the impacts of conflict and the peace negotiations that end it, much to the detriment of many women and men affected by and involved in the civil conflicts that have ravaged the region during the last thirty years. What do Colombian women and men have to learn from these experiences? In May 2000, a workshop entitled 'L…
Gender Planning and Development: Theory, Practice and Training
Gender planning is not an end in itself but a means by which women, through a process of empowerment, can emancipate themselves. Ultimately, its success depends on the capacity of women's organizations to confront subordination and create successful alliances which will provide constructive support in negotiating women's needs at the level of household, civil society, the state and the global system.Gender Planning and Development provides an int…
Building Inclusive Cities: Women's Safety and the Right to the City
Whitzman, Carolyn, Crystal Legacy, Caroline Andrew, Fran Klodawsky, Margaret Shaw, and Kalpana Viswanath (eds.) Building Inclusive Cities: Women's Safety and the Right to the City London and New Yo
Urban Violence and Insecurity: An Introductory Roadmap
The Dual Economy and Marginality Debate and the Contribution of Micro Analysis: Market Sellers in Bogotá
Informal sector or petty commodity production: Dualism or dependence in urban development
Access to Power: Politics and the Urban Poor in Developing Nations
Journal Article Access to Power: Politics and the Urban Poor in Developing Nations Get access Access to Power: Politics and the Urban Poor in Developing Nations. By Joan M. Nelson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1979. 463 pp. £17.20. Pb:£4.40. Caroline O. N. Moser Caroline O. N. Moser 1University College, London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 56, Issue 3, Summer 1…
People of the Barrio
Why the Poor Remain Poor: The Experience of Bogotá Market Traders in the 1970s
The persistence of long-term poverty among sectors of the urban and rural population in less-developed countries (LDCs), as well as in the so-called developed world, has resulted in the formulation of a diversity of interpretations by theoreticians and policy-makers seeking to comprehend the life of the poor, and for political, economic, and moral reasons to develop solutions to alleviate poverty. Recognition of the failure of the Accelerated Gro…
Thinking about development
Gender planning in the third world: Meeting practical and strategic gender needs
Women, Human Settlements and Housing
Housing and infrastructural services play a central role in the lives of Third World women and yet such women are invariably overlooked by those responsible for planning human settlements. The authors examine why this has occurred
A Methodological Framework for Analysing the Social Costs of Adjustment at the Micro-level: The Case of Guayaquil, Ecuador 1
This article describes the methodology used to examine the social dimensions of debt, recession and structural adjustment policies in terms of their impact on low income urban households in Guayaquil, Ecuador. It argues that rapid appraisal is appropriate to urban areas, and that with prior preparation questionnaire surveys and life history techniques are feasible tools. It highlights the importance of previous knowledge of the community and part…
Did the project fail? A community perspective on a participatory primary health care project in Ecuador
This article examines a UNICEF/Ministry of Health primary health care programme in Ecuador from a community perspective. It contributes to the debate concerning the way in which the relative 'success ̊s or 'failure ̊s of participatory projects is measured. It argues for evaluators to distinguish between the perceptions of the different actors involved, and to extend their enquiries beyond the actual lifespan of the project. It also provides lesso…
Urban social policy and poverty reduction
The paper describes the differences in the ways that social and economic policy perceive poverty and its underlying causes, and thus differences in how they define it, measure it and institute mechanisms to reduce it. It also highlights the many dimensions of poverty that economic policy ignores and considers the constraints that limit the effectiveness of current poverty reduction strategies
Household responses to poverty and vulnerability. Vol. 3, Confronting crisis in Commonwealth, metro Manila, Philippines
This study explored how poor households respond to changes in economic circumstances and labor market conditions, i.e. how the impact has been felt on the ground." It looked at how poor households adjust to a deteriorating situation, what strategies they adopt to limit the impact of shocks and generate additional resources, and what constraints impede their actions. This case study presents the main findings from the community of Commonwealth in …
Household responses to poverty and vulnerability. Vol. 1, confronting crisis in Cisne Dos, Guayaquil, Ecuador
This case study presents the main findings from the community of Cisne Dos, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The study explored how poor households respond to changes in economic circumstances and labor market conditions, what strategies they adopt to limit the impact of shocks and generate additional resources, and what constraints impede their actions. Three features distinguish this study from other poverty studies:a micro-level approach combining house…
Urban Poverty and Violence in Jamaica
No AccessWorld Bank Latin American and Caribbean Studies1 Feb 2013Urban Poverty and Violence in JamaicaAuthors/Editors: Caroline Moser, Jeremy HollandCaroline Moser, Jeremy Hollandhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-3870-6SectionsAboutPDF (0.6 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:This report, based primarily on a 1995 University of the West Indies participatory study, focuses on the complex …
Household responses to poverty and vulnerability. Vol. 4
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Household responses to poverty and vulnerability. Vol. 4Authors/Editors: Caroline Moser, Jeremy HollandCaroline Moser, Jeremy Hollandhttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-3850-1SectionsAboutPDF (0.4 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:This case study presents the main findings from the community of Chawama, in Lusaka, Zambia, part of a four city comparative…
La ciudad en el siglo XXI: Experiencias exitosas en gestión del desarrollo urbano en América Latina
El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo organizó en marzo de 1997 un "Simposio de ciudades y Foro de buenas prácticas en gestión urbana" . En él se debatieron las nuevas ideas sobre el papel de los centros urbanos en el futuro de la región, los problemas que enfrentarán al asumir este papel y las soluciones que se vislumbran al final del siglo. Este evento se realizó conjuntamente con la Asamblea Anual de Gobernadores del Banco en Barcelona. La vis…
The asset vulnerability framework: Reassessing urban poverty reduction strategies
Participatory urban appraisal and its application for research on violence
This paper emphasizes the importance of conducting participatory research on violence and describes the range of participatory urban appraisal tools that can be used to do so. This includes tools that can document the perceptions of poorer groups regarding the kinds of violence (economic, social or political), the extent, causes (and the links with poverty and exclusion) and consequences of violence, as well as the strategies for coping with or r…
Participatory urban appraisal and its application for research on violence
This paper emphasizes the importance of conducting participatory research on violence and describes the range of participatory urban appraisal tools that can be used to do so. This includes tools that can document the perceptions of poorer groups regarding the kinds of violence (economic, social or political), the extent, causes (and the links with poverty and exclusion) and consequences of violence, as well as the strategies for coping with or r…
Urban Poor Perceptions of Violence and Exclusion in Colombia
The study documents how people living in \n poor urban communities in Colombia, perceive violence, and \n identifies, the categories of violence affecting \n communities, the costs of different types of violence, the \n effect of violence on social capital, and the causes, and \n effects of social exclusion. Social institutions were \n identified across the nine research communities, making the \n distinction between those institutions benefiting…
Violence in a Post-Conflict Context: Urban Poor Perceptions from Guatemala
No AccessStand Alone Books1 Feb 2013Violence in a Post-Conflict ContextUrban Poor Perceptions from GuatemalaAuthors/Editors: Caroline Moser, Cathy McIlwaineCaroline Moser, Cathy McIlwainehttps://doi.org/10.1596/0-8213-4836-1SectionsAboutPDF (2.3 MB) ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In Abstract:The study documents how people living in poor urban communities in Guatemala perceive violence. Specifical…
Gender, conflict, and building sustainable peace: Recent lessons from Latin America
Latin American experiences of conflict and building sustainable peace have tended to show a clear neglect of a gender analysis of the impacts of conflict and the peace negotiations that end it, much to the detriment of many women and men affected by and involved in the civil conflicts that have ravaged the region during the last thirty years. What do Colombian women and men have to learn from these experiences? In May 2000, a workshop entitled 'L…
Poverty, violence and livelihood security in urban Colombia and Guatemala
Set within the context of re-conceptualizing poverty to emphasize its multidimensionality, this paper argues for the need to extend existing debates on livelihood security to incorporate notions of physical and personal security, manifest in the form of violence and conflict. In turn, it suggests that research on security should continue its shift in focus towards human security, especially at the micro-level. These arguments are based on primary…
Encounters with Violence in Latin America: Urban Poor Perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala
Latin America is both the world's most urbanized fastest developing regions, where the links between social exclusion, inequality and violence are clearly visible. The banal, ubiquitous nature of drug crime, robbery, gang and intra-family violence destabilizes countries' economies and harms their people and social structures.Encounters with Violence & Crime in Latin America explores the meaning of violence and insecurity in nine towns and cities …
Urban Violence and Insecurity: An Introductory Roadmap
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