Cover

About the Author

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

Latin America’s New Urban Punitiveness

Securitizing Democracies

Mexico City as a ‘Workshop’ of Punitive Urban Democratization

Organization of the Book

1 The Making of the Punitive City

The Punitive Logic of Urban Neoliberalism in Mexico City

Lawfare à La Mexicana

Punitive Democratization

The Consequences of Punitive Democratization

Conclusion

2 Neoliberal Insecurities and Resilient Clientelism

Clientelism in Mexico City: Then and Now

Clientelism and (in)Security

Conclusion

3 Lawfare and Resistance at the New Urban Frontier

Urban Renaissance in the Old Merced Area

Changing Patterns of Illegal Entrepreneurship and Political Regulation in Tepito

Conclusion

4 Securitizing Civic Activism

Selling Security in the Punitive City

Playing the NGO Game

Conclusion

5 Self-Policing, Commodified Protection and Community Justice

Self-Policing in Mexico City

The Informal Privatization of Policing

Private Security and Gated Communities

Indigenous Justice

Conclusion

Conclusion

References

Index