Politics and Violence in Central America and the Caribbean

• Main Author: Warnecke-Berger, Hannes (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Latin America-Politics and government.; Comparative politics.; Religion and politics.; Regionalism.; Economic development.; Social change.; Latin American Politics.; Comparative Politics.; Politics and Religion.; Development and Social Change.

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, and in-depth empirical research. It combines the Caribbean and Central America into a single comparative research that explores the historical (from the c...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Political Economy and/or Culture? Theorizing Forms of Violence
• 3.The Roots of Current Violence: Historical Comparative Perspectives on El Salvador, Jamaica, and Belize, 1500-1980
• 4. El Salvador: Transnationalization by Polarization and the Re-Emergence of Violence
• 5. Jamaica: Transnationalization by Force and the Transformation of Violence
• 6. Belize: Transnationalization by Coincidence and the Rise of Violence
• 7. Forms of Violence in Comparative Perspective
• 8. The Cultural Political Economy of Violence: A Conclusion.