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Association: Name: Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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Kotonias, Cybele. "The Politics of Lynch Violence in the State of Exception: Citizen Security and Vigilante Justice in Bolivia and Guatemala" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Apr 02, 2009 <Not Available>. 2009-11-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p362576_index.html>

Kotonias, C. C. , 2009-04-02 "The Politics of Lynch Violence in the State of Exception: Citizen Security and Vigilante Justice in Bolivia and Guatemala" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2009-11-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p362576_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: In its Latin American context, the term lynching refers to the extrajudicial killing of an alleged criminal by a large group of citizens and is often perceived as spontaneous �mob violence.� However, a number of scholars have recently argued that contemporary lynching represents a deeply political act through which communities make demands on the state for their inclusion in the benefits of citizenship. With this argument as a starting point, I contend that lynching represents a decisive moment in which communities actually redefine themselves as members of the political community, and force an active response from the state. Utilizing philosopher Giorgio Agamben�s notion of the �state of exception,� I argue that lynching occurs in spaces in which the norms of law and its actual practice are definitively separated, and communities are imagined by the state as �killable bodies� rather than citizens. A higher level of citizen security can be realized only through the production of a security apparatus that promises mutual accountability for both the state and its subject communities, a system that can be developed through the integration of state level security initiatives with local knowledge and citizen involvement.

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