dc.contributor.author
Hochmüller, Markus
dc.date.accessioned
2023-10-26T10:28:20Z
dc.date.available
2023-10-26T10:28:20Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/41245
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-40966
dc.description.abstract
This article examines the technopolitics of prevention in postwar Guatemala. In the 2010s, experts and policymakers shifted security governance in Central America’s most populous country towards anticipation. Against the background of rising gang violence, they implemented a set of sociopolitical and techno-material measures – based on the latest crime-control technologies, new policing strategies and urban design methods – in Guatemala’s most violent municipalities. The stated goals were to reconstruct state sovereignty and to improve public security by strengthening community resilience and inducing positive behavioural change in ‘at-risk’ citizens. Zooming in on the case of Villa Nueva, the article examines the emergence and effects of Guatemala’s ‘prevention assemblage’. It demonstrates that this technopolitical project has failed, as prevention turned into a new layer of control that shifted responsibility to local communities, further securitized urban spaces and populations, and reproduced exclusionary and repressive security governance.
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dc.format.extent
22 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
securitization
en
dc.subject
urban security
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dc.subject.ddc
300 Sozialwissenschaften::320 Politikwissenschaft::320 Politikwissenschaft
dc.title
Assembling prevention: Technology, expertise and control in postwar Guatemala
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1177/09670106221139769
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Security Dialogue
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
1
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart
54
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend
75
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
54
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1177/09670106221139769
refubium.affiliation
Lateinamerika-Institut (LAI)
refubium.note.author
Die Publikation wurde aus Open Access Publikationsgeldern der Freien Universität Berlin gefördert.
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
1460-3640