{"product_id":"outlawed-9780822353119","title":"Outlawed","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ethnography examining how indigenous residents of crime-ridden, marginalized neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance human rights with their need for safety and security.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Daniel Goldstein has written an elaborate and rich ethnography of the‘present absence’ of the Bolivian state in a marginal barrio in the city of Cochabamba...In many ways, Goldstein’s book is a testimony to ethnography at its best: it elucidates large critical issues by way of meticulous attention to local contexts and dynamics.” - Anders Burman, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Latin American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A]stute and useful….[T]his book provides a thought-provoking examination of human rights, fear of crime, and the ways in which people create new forms of justice. Given that it addresses fear of and daily responses to crime, a central concern of many Latin Americans today, this book will be widely read by anthropologists as well as those interested in Latin America, inequality, and \"post-neoliberalism.\" It should also be adopted in courses on criminal justice and inequality.” - Miriam Shakow, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of Latin American \u0026amp; Caribbean Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eOutlawed\u003c\/i\u003e, Daniel M. Goldstein tackles one of the most critical issues confronting Latin America today, namely, the insecurity experienced by numerous citizens who fear falling victim to theft, robbery, burglary, assault, rape, or homicide as they go about their daily lives. He proceeds in a smart way, by examining the Bolivian state's representations of violence, Bolivian citizens' experiences in a local neighborhood, and the notions of community justice and illegitimate violence that circulate locally, nationally, and internationally.\"—\u003cb\u003eSusan Bibler Coutin\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eNations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a terrific work, lively and engaging. It adds to the anthropological understanding of the law in practice in several ways. First, the book demonstrates that while the state does not protect those in Cochabamba's poor urban settlements from crime, it is present in their lives as a set of onerous bureaucratic and legal requirements. Second, it challenges legal pluralist arguments that there is an entirely separate legality operating in city slums. It reveals the legal systems of the urban poor not as entirely separate from the state but as fractured conjunctures of state and other legalities. Third, the book emphasizes the creative ways—from vigilantism to selective reliance on state services and local leaders—that marginalized communities handle legal problems. Taken together, its arguments are a major contribution to the field.\"—\u003cb\u003eSally Engle Merry\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eGender Violence: A Cultural Perspective\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Daniel Goldstein has written an elaborate and rich ethnography of the ‘present absence’ of the Bolivian state in a marginal barrio in the city of Cochabamba. . . . In many ways, Goldstein’s book is a testimony to ethnography at its best: it elucidates large critical issues by way of meticulous attention to local contexts and dynamics.” -- Anders Burman * Journal of Latin American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOutlawed \u003c\/i\u003epresents a theoretical tour de force that draws the reader into complicating and questioning long-standing tropes of urban\/rural, indigenous\/civilized, and neoliberal\/ communal that clearly continue to affect governmentality and everyday experiences of citizenship in contemporary Bolivia. As such, it is a must-read for scholars of the Andes, of neoliberal citizenship in all its manifestations, and—more importantly—for anyone concerned with the renewed scrutiny of security in the global south.” -- Isabel M. Scarborough * Journal of Anthropological Research *\u003cbr\u003e“Although \u003ci\u003eOutlawed\u003c\/i\u003e is an ethnography based on fieldwork with participant observation, traditional ethnographic description occupies only about forty percent of the text. The remainder is roughly forty percent theory and engagement with other literature, and twenty percent discussion of the personal role of the anthropologist. Each of the three elements contributes something to make \u003ci\u003eOutlawed\u003c\/i\u003e a valuable… work.” -- Gary Van Valen * The Latin Americanist *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eOutlawed\u003c\/i\u003e will undoubtedly inspire important debates on the place of 'engaged anthropology' in our discipline, while inadvertently showing that our scholarly production is often not as collaborative as our activism.\" -- Ellen Moodie * American Ethnologist *\u003cbr\u003e“Through compelling, sensitive, and lyrically written ethnographic analyses, Goldstein takes up a number of key problems for contemporary anthropology. . . . After \u003ci\u003eOutlawed\u003c\/i\u003e, it is no longer possible to view the role of human rights as a dominant mode of contemporary world-making in the same way.” -- Mark Goodale * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e 1. Security, Rights, and the Law in Evo's Bolivia 1\u003cbr\u003e 2. Getting Engaged: Reflections on an Activist Anthropology 35\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Phantom State: Law and Ordering on the Urban Margins 77\u003cbr\u003e 4. Exorcising Ghosts: Managing Insecurity in Uhspa Uhspa 121\u003cbr\u003e 5. Community Justice and the Creative Imagination 167\u003cbr\u003e 6. Inhuman Rights? Violence at the Nexus of Rights and Security 203\u003cbr\u003e 7. An Uncertain Anthropology 239\u003cbr\u003e Notes 257\u003cbr\u003e References 281\u003cbr\u003e Index 305","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406072258903,"sku":"9780822353119","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822353119.jpg?v=1730494431","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/outlawed-9780822353119","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}