The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds

The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds

Author: Carlos Aguirre

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2005-01-27

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780822334699

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DIVThe first major study of prison reform and the prison system in Peru and one of the few social histories of criminals and their world in Latin America./div


The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds

The Criminals of Lima and Their Worlds

Author: Carlos Aguirre

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2005-01-27

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0822334690

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DIVThe first major study of prison reform and the prison system in Peru and one of the few social histories of criminals and their world in Latin America./div


The Sexual Question

The Sexual Question

Author: Paulo Drinot

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-03-12

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1108493122

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Exploring the links between sexuality, society, and state formation, this is the first history of prostitution and its regulation in Peru. Scholars and students interested in Latin American history, the history of gender and sexuality, and the history of medicine and public health will find Drinot's study engaging and thoroughly researched.


Prisons in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century

Prisons in the Americas in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Jonathan D. Rosen

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2015-04-09

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0739191365

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This volume on penitentiary systems in the Americas offers a long-overdue look at the prisons that exist at the forefront of the ongoing struggle against drugs and violence throughout North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. From Haiti to Bolivia, the authors examine the conditions in these systems, and allow several common themes to emerge, including the alarming prevalence of lengthy pre-trial detention and the often abysmal living conditions in these institutions. Taken together, this comprises the first comparative overview of the use and abuse of prisons in the Americas.


The Rarified Air of the Modern

The Rarified Air of the Modern

Author: Willie Hiatt

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0190248904

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This book examines technology, modern identity, and history-making in Peru through the country's relationship with aviation.


Global Convict Labour

Global Convict Labour

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-06-24

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 9004285024

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Global Convict Labour offers a global history of convict labour across many of the regimes of punishment that have appeared from Antiquity to the present, including transportation, prisons, workhouses and labour camps. The editors' essay surveys the available literature, and sets the theoretical basis to approach the issue. The fifteen chapters explore the genealogies of convict labour and its relationships with coloniality and governmentality. The volume re-establishes convict labour firmly within labour history, as one of the entangled, multiple labour relations that have punctuated human history. Similarly, it places convictism back within migration history at large, bridging the gap between the growing literature on convict transportation and research on slavery and other forms of free and bonded migration. Contributors are: Carlos Aguirre, David Arnold, Marc Buggeln, Timothy Coates, Christian G. De Vito, Mary Gibson, Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga, Stacey Hynd, Padraic Kenney, Alex Lichtenstein, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Alice Rio, Ricardo D. Salvatore, Jean-Lucien Sanchez, Pieter Spierenburg, Stephan Steiner, Laurens E. Tacoma, Heather Ann Thompson, Lynne Viola.


Voices of Crime

Voices of Crime

Author: Luz E. Huertas

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2016-11-29

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0816534640

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Crime exists in every society, revealing not only the way in which societies function but also exposing the standards that society holds about what is harmful and punishable. Criminalizing individuals and actions is not the exclusive domain of the state; it emerges from the collective consciousness—the judgments of individuals and groups who represent societal thinking and values. Studying how these individuals and groups construct, represent, perpetrate, and contest crime reveals how their message reinforces and also challenges historical and culturally specific notions of race, class, and gender. Voices of Crime examines these official and unofficial perceptions of deviancy, justice, and social control in modern Latin America. As a collection of essays exploring histories of crime and justice, the book focuses on both cultural and social history and the interactions among state institutions, the press, and a variety of elite and non-elite social groups. Arguing that crime in Latin America is best understood as a product of ongoing negotiation between “top-down” and “bottom up” ideas (not just as the exercise of power from the state), the authors seek to document and illustrate the everyday experiences of crime in particular settings, emphasizing underresearched historical actors such as criminals, victims, and police officers. The book examines how these social groups constructed, contested, navigated, and negotiated notions of crime, criminality, and justice. This reorientation—in contrast to much of the existing historical literature that focuses on elite and state actors—prompts the authors to critically examine the very definition of crime and its perpetrators, suggesting that “not only the actions of the poor and racial others but also the state can be termed as criminal.”


From the Ashes of History

From the Ashes of History

Author: Carlos Aguirre

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2015-07-23

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0990919110

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The formation, organization, and accessibility of archives and libraries are critical for the production of historical narratives. They contain the materials with which historians and others reconstruct past events. Archives and libraries, however, not only help produce history, but also have a history of their own. From the early colonial projects to the formation of nation states in Latin America, archives and libraries had been at the center of power struggles and conflicting ideas over patrimony and document preservation that demand historical scrutiny. Much of their collections have been lost on account of accidents or sheer negligence, but there are also cases of recovery and reconstruction that have opened new windows to the past. The essays in this volume explore several fascinating cases of destruction and recovery of archives and libraries and illuminate the ways in which those episodes help shape the writing of historical narratives and the making of collective memories.


A World of Populations

A World of Populations

Author: Heinrich Hartmann

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2014-09-01

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1782384286

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Demographic study and the idea of a “population” was developed and modified over the course of the twentieth century, mirroring the political, social, and cultural situations and aspirations of different societies. This growing field adapted itself to specific policy concerns and was therefore never apolitical, despite the protestations of practitioners that demography was “natural.” Demographics were transformed into public policies that shaped family planning, population growth, medical practice, and environmental conservation. While covering a variety of regions and time periods, the essays in this book share an interest in the transnational dynamics of emerging demographic discourses and practices. Together, they present a global picture of the history of demographic knowledge.


Beyond Patriotic Phobias

Beyond Patriotic Phobias

Author: Joshua Savala

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2022-06-21

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0520385896

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Introduction -- A South American Pacific -- Gender and sexuality in the Pacific -- Transnational cholera -- Comparisons and connections in Pacific anarchism -- Pacific policing -- Epilogue : of parallels.