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The Enlightened Patrolman
The Enlightened Patrolman guides readers through Mexico City’s efforts to envision and carry out modern values as viewed through the lens of early law enforcement, an accelerated process of racialization of urban populations, and burgeoning ideas of modern masculinity.
Hungry for Revolution
Introduction : building a revolutionary appetite -- Worlds of abundance, worlds of scarcity -- Red consumers -- Controlling for nutrition -- Cultivating consumption -- When revolution tasted like empanadas and red wine -- A battle for the Chilean stomach -- Barren plots and empty pots -- Epilogue : a counterrevolution at the market.
Global Forensic Cultures
Essays explore forensic science in global and historical context, opening a critical window onto contemporary debates about the universal validity of present-day genomic forensic practices. Contemporary forensic science has achieved unprecedented visibility as a compelling example of applied expertise. But the common public view—that we are living in an era of forensic deliverance, one exemplified by DNA typing—has masked the reality: that forensic science has always been unique, problematic, and contested. Global Forensic Cultures aims to rectify this problem by recognizing the universality of forensic questions and the variety of practices and institutions constructed to answer them. G...
Constitutional Law and Politics of Secession
This collection presents an analysis of the concept of secession and its constitutional accommodation alongside an assessment of the effects of secession in constitutional and international law. The work proposes a new approach and insights into the existing literature that fill a gap from multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives. The book approaches the topics of secession, constitutionalism, and their relationship from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, including the analysis of particular secessionist examples, such as Catalonia, the Basque Country, Tigray, the Palestinian minority in Israel, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Mapuche Nation, from a comparative constitu...
Beyond Patriotic Phobias
Introduction -- A South American Pacific -- Gender and sexuality in the Pacific -- Transnational cholera -- Comparisons and connections in Pacific anarchism -- Pacific policing -- Epilogue : of parallels.
Exile and Nation-State Formation in Argentina and Chile, 1810–1862
This book traces the impact of exile in the formation of independent republics in Chile and the Río de la Plata in the decades after independence. Exile was central to state and nation formation, playing a role in the emergence of territorial borders and Romantic notions of national difference, while creating a transnational political culture that spanned the new independent nations. Analyzing the mobility of a large cohort of largely elite political émigrés from Chile and the Río de la Plata across much of South America before 1862, Edward Blumenthal reinterprets the political thought of well-known figures in a transnational context of exile. As Blumenthal shows, exile was part of a reflexive process in which elites imagined the nation from abroad while gaining experience building the same state and civil society institutions they considered integral to their republican nation-building projects.
Police Writing and Radical Modernisation in the Porfiriato and the Conservative Republic (1870s-1910s)
This book explores the process of modernisation during the Porfiriato and the Conservative republic from the perspective of one of its most erratic agents: the urban police. Taking a pragmalinguistic approach, this book examines police bureaucratic, journalistic, and literary writing practices that flourished in the wake of police professionalisation and in response to the demands of state expansion, urban order, and cultural disciplining. It outlines the precarious state of an institution that had to redefine itself in the face of change, as well as policemen’s attempts to enforce and imagine different modes of doing modern estate, society, and culture. Integrating classical sociological ...
The Fear of Robachicos in Mexico
Civil society organizations report that fourteen children disappear every day in Mexico. This book studies the origins of this social phenomenon and its consequences, not only in the emotional sphere, but also in how children have been treated. Focusing on children's special positions within Mexican society rather than criminal acts or the implementation of the law, Sosenski links social and cultural history, the history of crime and fear, the application of justice and the media's role, childhood and the city to paint a multi-dimensional picture of child abduction and its causes. Exploring the social impact of child protection policies and the figure of the robachicos, or child kidnapper, Soneski draws from oral traditions, films and books, songs and plays; all of which embody a culture of fear and danger reported and accentuated by a mass media response. The Fear of Robachicos in Mexico focuses on the role of the media and entertainment in the legitimization of violence toward children and the objectification of their lives, stripping them of their right to freedom and curtailing their autonomy.
Delincuentes, bandoleros y montoneros
Delincuentes, bandoleros y montoneros aborda la violencia social popular en el ámbito rural, específicamente entre 1850 y 1870, en tres de sus expresiones: la transgresión cotidiana, el bandolerismo y las guerrillas montoneras. A partir de archivos judiciales, archivos de intendencia y gobernación, periódicos, boletines de leyes y decretos, este estudio distingue la criminalidad circunstancial o trasgresión cotidiana de las acciones de bandolerismo, sosteniendo que muchos de los que violan la ley no son delincuentes habituales, sino más bien criminales ocasionales, peones libres o labradores que, lejos de adoptar el salteo o el abigeato como forma permanente de subsistencia, incurren en estas acciones porque la violación a las normas institucionales y morales es parte de su construcción como sujetos.
