Outlawed

In Outlawed, Daniel M. Goldstein reveals how indigenous residents of a marginal neighborhood in Cochabamba, Bolivia struggle to balance security with rights. The residents of these communities feel abandoned to the crime and violence that grip the area, sometimes turning to vigilante practices- including lynching- to apprehend and punish suspected criminals. Goldstein describes those in this precarious position as outlawed: unprotected by state law but forced to comply with it in other areas of their lives, their solutions to protection criminalized yet their needs for security ignored by the state. Goldstein details the complications of the government's attempts to provide greater rights to indigenous peoples, including a new constitution that recognizes "community justice." He also examines how state definitions of indigeneity ignore the existence of marginal neighborhoods, continuing previous exclusionary practices. The insecurity felt by these residents in Cochabamba and, more broadly, the urban poor throughout Bolivia and Latin America, remains. Outlaweddemonstrates the complex interconnections that exist between differing definitions of security and human rights at local, national, and global levels.