Claudio Lomnitz

Sovereignty and Extortion

A New State Form in Mexico

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Produktbeschreibung

Claudio Lomnitz proposes a new theorization of the Mexican state in relation to extreme violence, showing how the current crisis represents a fundamental shift in the relationship between the state and the economy in which the rule of law has eroded.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2024
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9781478026495
• ISBN-10: 1478026499
• Artikelnr.: 69928028

Autorenporträt

Claudio Lomnitz is Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University and the author of several books, including Nuestra América: My Family in the Vertigo of Translation, The Return of Comrade Ricardo Flores Magón, and Death and the Idea of Mexico.

Inhaltsangabe

Preamble  ix
1. Interpretation of the “Torn Social Fabric”  1
2. The State Estranged from Itself  29
3. The Armed Wing of the Informal Economy  67
4. Regional Systems of the Criminal Economy  101
5. Island of Rights, Sea of Extortion  139
6. Contingency as the New Zeitgeist  171
Notes  197
Bibliography  203
Index  211