Over the last few decades, drug trafficking organizations in Latin America became infamous
for their shocking public crimes, from narcoterrorist assaults on the Colombian political …

In 2012, the two major street gangs in El Salvador, Mara Salvatrucha 13 and Barrio 18,
struck a truce credited with reducing homicide rates by more than 50% in one year. Although …

As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and
violence have become inescapable. From the paramilitary invasion of Medell¡ n in …

Este libro explica de manera lúcida cómo funciona la memoria en tanto herramienta para
sobrevivir, y cómo la violencia, en términos generales, surge en medio de un conjunto …

Dwellers of Memory is an ethnographic study of how urban youth in Colombia came to be at
the intersection of multiple forms of political, drug-related, and territorial violence in a country …

While most scientific studies on disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) of
former combatants focus on the countryside, the case of the paramilitaries in Medellín …

Urban violence is an emerging challenge to development and democracy across Latin
America. How do cities negotiate this challenge alongside pressures to compete in global …

Esta obra realiza un aporte a los estudios de la violencia en Colombia desde la teoría de los
campos de Pierre Bourdieu. Frente a concepciones que le atribuyen al paramilitarismo la …

The transformation of Medellín in Colombia is well known to urbanists. A highly contested,
violent and unequal city in the 1980s and 1990s, Medellín's Social Urbanism ushered in a …

Despite efforts employed by the Colombian state to demobilize paramilitary groups and to
tackle organized crime structures since 2003, Colombia today remains characterized by a …