Viviana García Pinzón's dissertation "Local order, violence, and trajectories of governance in peripheral cities in Colombia and El Salvador" was published as book and is now available under the title "Trajectories of Governance - Tracing the Entanglements of Order and Violence in Peripheral Cities of Latin America" at Bristol University Press.
Trough the case studies of four peripheral cities in El Salvador and Colombia, "Trajectories of Governance" focuses on understanding multiscalar processes shaping the local order in each city and the place of violence therein while stressing history, context, and subnational differences. Based on a multidisciplinary analytical framework, it explains why and how some peripheral cities have become the locus of violent orders, whereas others have managed to control violence, and examines the role of violence in the workings of local governance. Taken together, the analytical framework and empirical analysis shed new light on the spatiotemporal connections and enabling conditions of different forms of violence in Latin America and on the dynamics of power and order-making in its contemporary cities.
We would also like to congratulate Viviana García Pinzón on winning first place in the ADLAF prize for her dissertation!
The Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung (ADLAF), the German Latin American Studies Association, has set itself the task of promoting research activities relating to Latin America. In 2024, the ADLAF once again awarded the ADLAF Prize for outstanding dissertations related to Latin America that go beyond the narrower subject area. Three prizes of EUR 1,500, EUR 1,000 and EUR 750 were awarded. The prize was arwarded on the ADLAF Conference 2024, June 6.
Viviana García Pinzón has already received the "Christiane Rajewsky Prize" for her same dissertation.