Refusing to Be Governed
Urban Policing, Gang Violence, and the Politics of Evilness in an Afro-Colombian Shantytown
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2290684 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jaime Amparo Alves (CEAF/Universidad Icesi and UC Santa Barbara) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-36 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1081-6976 • E-ISSN: 1555-2934 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/plar.12276 |
| OpenAlex | W2933533975 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 24 |
What is the role of policing within urban contexts marked by economic dispossession, crime, and gang violence? This article grapples with this question by examining both policing practices and the strategies of resistance embraced by residents of El Guayacán, a predominantly black neighborhood in the outskirts of Cali, Colombia. I argue that policing is not only about repression but also about enforcing spatial-racial boundaries and administering social death. On the one hand, targeting black bodies and black places as the problem of urban security provides police a spatial fix (to borrow from critical geographers) for broad anxieties around crime. On the other hand, the discursive and material production of unruly bodies and ungovernable spaces justifies state disinvestment, social abandonment, and police aggression against racialized others
Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Policing Practices and Perceptions
Ausencia y presencia estatal como forma de reproducción de la violencia urbana en el distrito de Aguablanca (Cali, Colombia)
Activism under Fire
Taking care of others’ waste
Grounding legal geography
Divergent citizenships
Foregrounding race in analyses of extraction
The technopolitics of security
Challenging conventional wisdom on illicit economies and rural development in Latin America
Tangential Movements
Nowhere land
Disappearance, emergence, and appearance
Police violence, corrupt cops, and the repudiation of stigma among underclass residents in Mexico City
Disaggregating citizenship
Everyday Authoritarianism
The Art of Not Being Governed
Blackness and Race Mixture
The Anti-Black City
In Search of Respect
Beyond social reproduction
We are Illegal, but not Illegitimate.” Modes of Policing in Medellin, Colombia
Emancipatory social inquiry
Discipline and Punish? Youth Gangs' Response to ‘Zero‐tolerance’ Policies in Honduras
Y el Derecho a la Ciudad? Aproximaciones sobre el racismo, la dominación patriarcal y estrategias feministas de resistencia en Cali, Colombia
Policing the Anticommunity
Remember Fallujah
Becoming the 'Baddest
Maddening States
Where there is fire, there is politics
Becoming a Force in the Zone
The State as a Gang
Ayotzinapa and the Criminalization of Racialized Poverty in La Montaña, Guerrero, Mexico1
Unmaking the State in 'Occupied' Haiti
The Anthropology of Police as Public Anthropology
Counting bodies
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |