Uneven Landscapes of Violence

Hepzibah Muñoz Martínez, Ph.D. (2008), York University, is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick. She has published several peer-reviewed articles on Mexico’s political economy and violence including 'Criminal Violence and Social Control' in NACLA 47, 2014.

• AcknowledgementsList of Maps and Images1 Introduction: Violent State Formation and Accumulation in Mexico1  Locating Criminality, Illegality and Violence in Mexico2  Violence, Criminal Groups, and the State3  Violent Spatialities of State Formation and Uneven Development4  Lived Experience as Fieldwork5  Structure of the Book2 Economies and Politics of (Il)Legality, 1950–20121  Law, Order, and Uneven Development under ISI2  Neoliberal Prohibitions and Transgressions after 19803  Governance, Neoliberal Consolidation, and Ambiguity after 20004  Conclusion3 The (Il)Legal Space of Global Trade and Finance1  (Il)Legal Dispossession2  Uneven Development, Finance, and Money Laundering3  Law and Geographies of Power4  Conclusion4 Urban (Dis)Orders1  The Politics of Silence and the Routinization of Fear2  Spaces of (Il)Legality and Landscapes of Fear3  Undemocratic Infrastructure4  Conclusion5 Uneven Development and Politics of (In)Difference1  Unevenness and the Production of (In)Difference2  State Power, Criminal Groups and Accumulation through the ‘Illegal’ Other3  Conclusion6 Social Space, Law, and Everyday Forms of Resistance1  Streets of Hope2  Places of Terror and Human Rights as Labor Rights3  Structured Coherence, Collective Bargaining and Transcripts of Labor4  Conclusion7 Conclusion: Geographies of State, Accumulation, and the LawReferences Index