Latin America's Global Border System

An Introduction
Herausgeber: Zepeda, Beatriz; Enríquez Bermeo, Francisco; Carrión Mena, Fernando

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Produktbeschreibung

Latin America's Global Border System is the opening volume in the first collection of academic works devoted exclusively to borders and illegal markets in Latin America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781032068848
• ISBN-10: 1032068841
• Artikelnr.: 69923159

Autorenporträt

Beatriz Zepeda, is a professor-researcher at the Center for International Studies at El Colegio de México, Mexico. She holds a PhD in Ethnicity and Nationalism and an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. From 2012 to 2014 she was director of FLACSO-Guatemala. She has lectured on International Relations at universities in England, Ecuador, Guatemala and Mexico. Her research focuses on the Mexico-Guatemala border, illegal markets, nationalism, migration, and foreign policy. Fernando Carrión Mena, is Emeritus Professor at FLACSO-Ecuador. He has dedicated his life to the study of urbanization process, cultural heritage, violence, security, and drug trafficking. He was director of planning for the Municipality of Quito (1988-1992), general coordinator of RED CIUDADES for Latin America (1990-1993), director of FLACSO-Ecuador (1995-2004) and councilman of the Metropolitan District of Quito (2005-2009). Fernando has founded eight thematic journals, and has published over 250 academic articles, 64 books (as editor or author) and 12 book collections (as coordinator). In 2015 he was recognized by ESGLOBAL as one of the fifty most influential intellectuals of Latin America. Francisco Enríquez Bermeo, Department of Political Studies, FLACSO-Ecuador. Francisco holds a degree in Economics from Universidad Central del Ecuador and a Master's degree in Local Development from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. From 2015 to 2017, he coordinated the research project "Exploring the political economy of violence in Latin America's borders". Francisco is currently the Executive Secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Organization of Border Cities (OLACCIF), a position he has held since 2016.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Permanent Construction of Borders in Latin America Part
1: Border Subsystems 1.1: Producing Countries 1. The Global Border System
and Illegal Markets in Peru: Notes for a Research Agenda 2. Bolivia: The
Tensions, Challenges and Prospects of the Border Subsystem 1.2:
Platform-Type Countries 3. Ecuador's Global Border Subsystem: From "Island
of Peace" to International Crime Platform 4. Borders, Crime, and State
Responses in Argentina 1.3: Strategic Countries 5. Guatemala's Border
System: A First Approach 6. Mexico's Cross-Border Subsystem: Cocaine
Trafficking and Violence on the Northern Border 1.4: Multifunctional
Countries 7. Projecting Borders across the Atlantic: The Case of Italy from
a Latin American Perspective 8. Brazil and Its Borders: History and Limits
of a Sovereign State Part 2: Thematic Axes 9. Illegal Markets: New
Institutional Architecture and Its Territorial Expression in Latin America
10. Cross-Border Urban Complexes. The Urban Morphology of a Global
Structure 11. A Gender Perspective in the Study of Latin American Border
Systems