Trajectories of Governance

Viviana García Pinzón is Senior Researcher at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (ABI) at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and Associate at the Institute for Latin American Studies of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies GIGA.

“This book helps scholars of violence to see and understand what, for many of us, has been hiding in plain sight. Through rigorous, in-depth field research, García Pinzón highlights the complexity and dynamism of local orders, taking us away from famed cities like Rio de Janeiro or Medellín and instead into the streets of peripheral cities and into ecologies of violence and order.” Philip Johnson, Flinders University

• 1.Introduction2.Setting the Stage: Politics, Violence, and Peripheral Cities in Colombia and El Salvador3.Trajectories of Governance: Ecologies, Citizenship and Varieties of Order 4.Pereira: A Violent Order in a ‘Coffee Paradise’5.Sonsonate: Violent Order and Local Governance6.Chalatenango: Violence Contention and Governance in a Society-Led Order7.Tunja: Local Governance in a State-Led Order8.Conclusion