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6 - The Coproduction of Order

from Part III - Collective Vigilantism and the Coproduction of Order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2021

Eduardo Moncada
Affiliation:
Barnard College, Columbia University
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Summary

This chapter continues the comparative analysis of the two municipalities in Michoacán by leveraging within-case shifts in the availability of police as allies for victims’ resistance efforts. In both cases the variants of collective vigilantism produced “bottom-up” purges of the local police who had been captured by criminal actors. Victims responded to this shift in strategic conditions by pursuing the coproduction of local order. Yet the projects of coproduction varied in their structures and practices in ways that reflected the enduring differences in the nature of the local political economies and the legacies of differing forms of collective vigilantism. Avocado sector victims employed their robust sectoral organization and joined with governing authorities to jointly shape local order, whereas the legacy of decentralized collective vigilantism and weak ties to governing authorities in the berry sector resulted in violent competition between coalitions of armed victims and politicians to obtain political power during elections.

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Resisting Extortion
Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America
, pp. 155 - 176
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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