Uneven Landscapes of Violence: Geographies of Law and Accumulation in Mexico

by Hepzibah Muñoz Martínez

Winner of the 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award

In contrast to analyses that view systemic violence in Mexico as simply the result of drugs and criminality, a deviation of a well-functioning market economy and/or a failing and corrupt state, Mu?oz Mart?nez argues in Uneven Landscapes of Violence that the nexus of criminality, illegality and violence is integral to neoliberal state formation. It was through this nexus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004435484
• ISBN13: 9789004435483
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 196 Pages