Victims of assassination foster a deathly fetish. Corpse Magic: Echoes Active in the Slayer–Slain Nexus, Michael Taussig, 2025, University of Chicago Press
Categories: Colombia, North America, South America, United States
In Latin America, crooks reign where states cower. Inside Criminalized Governance: How and Why Gangs Rule the Streets of Rio de Janeiro, Nicholas Barnes, 2025, Cambridge University Press
Categories: Brazil, Central America, Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico, North America, South America
Mexico’s cynical state is often the source of crime, not its scourge. Call the Mothers: Searching for Mexico’s Disappeared in the War on Drugs, Shaylih Muehlmann, 2024, University of California Press
Categories: Mexico, North America
Mexico’s state has abandoned public security to the myth of a moral crisis. Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico, Claudio Lomnitz, 2024, Duke University Press
Categories: Mexico, North America, United States
