Trajectories of Governance: Tracing the Entanglements of Order and Violence in Peripheral Cities of Latin America (First Edition) (Spaces of Peace, Security and Development)

By: Viviana García Pinzón

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Synopsis: Trajectories of Governance studies the complex dynamics of order-making, violence and governance in peripheral cities in Latin America from a comparative, historical and multi-scalar approach. It aims to discover more about the drivers, contexts and uneven levels of violence through the case studies of Chalatenango and Sonsonate in El Salvador and Pereira and Tunja in Colombia. Based on a multidisciplinary analytical framework, it explains why and how some peripheral cities have become the locus of violent orders, whereas others have managed to control violence, and to examine the role of violence in the workings of local governance.