Viviana Garca Pinzn is a Senior Researcher at the Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (ABI) at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and an Associate at the Institute for Latin American Studies of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies GIGA.
“This book helps scholars of violence to see and understand what, for many of us, has been hiding in plain sight. Through rigorous, in-depth field research, García Pinzón highlights the complexity and dynamism of local orders, taking us away from famed cities like Rio de Janeiro or Medellín and instead into the streets of peripheral cities and into ecologies of violence and order.” Philip Johnson, Flinders University “A refreshing and timely contribution to our understanding of drivers of urban violence that breaks disciplinary boundaries and offers useful tools to better grasp the complexity of this phenomenon and reimagine approaches to address it.” Alexandra Abello Colak, London School of Economics and Political Science