"Community Justice," Ancestral Rights, and Lynching in Rural Bolivia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2415463 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donna Yates (0000-0002-9936-6461) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-19 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Race and Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2153-3687 • E-ISSN: 2153-3687 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2153368717713824 |
| OpenAlex | W2623587233 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 13 |
Lynching in Bolivia has been portrayed as a largely routinized and primarily urban occurrence that is a direct response to the state's inability to provide security. Using a recent case of rural lynching as a starting point, I will evaluate the idea of rural Bolivian lynching in Indigenous communities as vigilantism. I contrast what little is known about rural lynching in Bolivia to the known pattern of urban lynching and ask whether these are distinct phenomena. Finally, I discuss the idea of ancestral validation and the punishment rights implied by a western-style state sanctioning aspects of non-western justice. I ask, do our existing models for such extreme cases as fatal vigilantism exclude lynching in rural Indigenous Bolivian communities? At the heart of this discussion is how we define a cultural practice versus how we define deviance in a multicultural society; how we nest authority structures and how we afford them legitimate rights to the use of force and other extreme control measures
Criminology · Economic Justice · Indigenous · Political science · Punishment (psychology · Sociology · State (computer science · Cuban History and Society · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |