The War Has Brought Peace to Mexico: World War II and the Consolidation of the Post-Revolutionary State by Halbert Jones (review)
“community justice” and his critique of the hegemony of human rights as the dominant language of social change and moral improvement in contemporary Bolivia. In regard to the first, Outlawed reflects his evolving understanding of the different forms that violence takes in peri-urban Cochabamba as a response to chronic insecurity and the wavering presence of what he calls the “phantom state.” Here, his subtle unpacking of the multiple discursive frameworks through which practices like lynching have been constructed in Bolivia make foundational and wide-ranging theoretical contributions that have implications for the understanding of justice-making throughout Latin America and beyond.