Michoacán and Rio de Janeiro: Criminal Governance, Social Control and Obtaining Profit and Political Power by Armed Self-Defense Groups and Militias

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4322/dilemas.v15esp4.52506

Keywords:

militia, self-defense, crime, state, violence

Abstract

This paper compares two important experiences of the emergence and consolidation of armed non-state actors in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Michoacán, Mexico, noting the rise of the groups, their functioning, relationship with the state and involvement in new forms of governance in territorial control, population regulation and profit-making. These phenomena are part of a broader transformation related to political mutations that decentralize the state and generate specific subjective forms that modify the relationships between the individual, the social, the state, and the market. 

Author Biographies

Antonio Fuentes Díaz, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

Professor e pesquisador do Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Buap, Puebla, México). É doutor em sociologia pela Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Unam, Cidade do México).

José Cláudio Souza Alves, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

Professor titular da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ, Seropédica, Brasil). É doutor pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia (PPGS) da Universidade de São Paulo (USP, Brasil), mestre em sociologia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio, Brasil) e graduado em estudos sociais pela Fundação Educacional de Brusque (Febe, Brusque, Brasil).

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Published

2022-06-21

Issue

Especial 4 - ‘Governança Criminal na América Latina em Perspectiva Comparada’

Section

Comparações transnacionais

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