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Participatory Security: Citizen Security, Participation, and the Inequities of Citizenship in Urban Peru

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: This article discusses a model of local governance referred to here as ‘participatory security’, in which citizens are held responsible for maintaining urban security by participating in municipal programmes. I argue that the goals of universal ‘inclusion’ through democratic ‘participation’ are undermined by political ideologies espousing both rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Through ethnographic cases from highland Peru, in which city centre neighbourhoods and peripheral zones are expected to participate in markedly different fashions, I demonstrate how the discourse of responsibilities translates into differential participation and effectively institutionalises the layered imbalances of urban citizenship in new and highly consequential ways.

Source: Bulletin of Latin American Research

DOI: 10.1111/j.1470-9856.2011.00656.x

Author: KAIROS M. MARQUARDT

Institution: University of Michigan

Language: English

Topic: Politics and Society in Latin America

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Reduced inequalities, Sustainable cities and communities

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Science Foundation