Globalization, Violence and Security

Shirlita Espinosa worked as postdoctoral researcher with RISC based in the University of Luxembourg from 2013 to 2015. She is an academic who has worked in Asia, Australia and Europe. Her research interests include migration and development, race and ethnicity, multiculturalism and Southeast Asia.

Antonella Fazio has a BA and MA in economics from the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) and PhD in History and Civilization at the European University Institute (EUI) of Florence focusing on economic history. In 2014 she was a postdoctoral researcher in the department of Economics at Universidad de los Andes and then she worked as advisor for the City Council of Bogotá. Her research interests include institutions, development, education and economic history.

This collection is a great contribution to the field of violence and security studies. It presents six comparative, cross-regional analyses of violence and security, with both theoretical contributions and empirical researches conducted in Mexico, Morocco, Colombia, South Africa and Brazil. The book looks at violence and security within the broader contexts of globalization and regionalization as forces that shape the way discourses are understood with very concrete real-life consequences. Articles in the collection also discuss identity politics, indigenous cultures, race and ethnicity, and mass media in relation to violence and security. The book is uniquely tri-lingual with articles written in English, Spanish and French, and it also includes a preface by RISC president Harlan Koff.

This book is a great contribution to the field of violence and security studies. It presents six comparative, cross-regional analyses of violence and security, with both theoretical contribution and empirical researches conducted in Mexico, Morocco, Colombia, South Africa and Brazil.

Harlan Koff: Preface - Vanessa Barolsky: Violence: Global Solutions to a Global Problem? - Claudia Puerta Silva/Alejandro Agudelo Calle: Aportes de la televisión a la formación ciudadana en el contexto de las violencias del sistema de salud en Colombia - Carlos Mario Perea: Ciudad, conflicto y paz en Colombia1 - Joana Domingues Vargas/Natasha Elbas Neri: From the Desire to Live to the Readiness to Kill. The Result of Legal and Extra-legal Punitive Practices Involving Children and Adolescents in Rio de Janeiro - Robert V.H. Dover/Paula A. Hinestroza Blandón/Gloria Patricia Lopera Mesa: Regional Mining Identities vs. Multinational Mining Interests. The End of Traditional Small-scale Gold Mining in Marmato (Caldas, Colombia) - Émeline Nanga : Analyse comparée du phénomène de la violence contre les migrants au Maroc et au Mexique, pris dans le contexte des processus d'intégration régionale.