Violence, security policies and resistance
The overall objective of the CLACSO Working Group on Violence, Security Policies and Resistance It is to develop a research program about the plurality of violence that intersectionally affects vulnerable groups and all societies in the region,
particularly to their democratic regimes; the effects of neoliberal securitism; the capacity for community resistance and its regressive versions, through the dialogue of knowledge between university researchers, community researchers and progressive political actors for the multisectoral design of policies for a second generation of citizen security programs for the defense and construction of post-neoliberal democratic regimes in Latin America.
General guidelines of our action research program:
- The use of violence as mechanisms for resolving gender, status, ethnic, social, economic, political, intersectional and rent extraction conflicts (arms trafficking, military prohibition of illicit substances, enforced disappearance, human trafficking, lethality of armed and security forces, organized violence, cybercrime, financial and environmental crimes).
- Security colonialism refers to the asymmetric and unequal exchanges between central and peripheral elites regarding neoliberal or progressive security policies and their impacts on freedoms, human rights, human development and democracy, especially on the most vulnerable, stigmatized and invisible groups.
- Peaceful or violent resistances according to repertoires of protest in defense of life in cases of extractivism (displacements, resistance movements to megaprojects) and different manifestations of violence (in their most negative forms such as lynchings, homicides, femicides, militias and armament; or in their progressive forms, such as care networks, protection of victims, grassroots organizations, regional networks), reproduction of inequalities in vulnerability (confinement of young people and ethnic minorities) and suppression of freedoms through censorship or repression.
They coordinate:
Maria Alejandra Otamendi
Gino Germani Research Institute
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of Buenos Aires
Argentina
José Alfredo Zavaleta Betancourt
Institute of Historical and Social Research
Universidad Veracruzana
Mexico
Nilia Viscardi
International Sociology
Faculty of Social Sciences
University of the Republic
Uruguay
Queries: [email protected]
Image: Héctor Vicario (2006). Men and women roots, in LookXalapa, Veracruzana University
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