In this new video, Viviana García Pinzón gives an insight into her book 'Trajectories of Governance' and the research process behind it.
The book is Viviana García Pinzón's dissertation ‘Local order, violence, and trajectories of governance in peripheral cities in Colombia and El Salvador’, which was published by Bristol University Press in 2024 under the title ‘Trajectories of Governance - Tracing the Entanglements of Order and Violence in Peripheral Cities of Latin America’.
In 'Trajectories of Governance', through the case studies of Chalatenango and Sonsonate in El Salvador and Pereira and Tunja in Colombia, Viviana García Pinzón studies the complex dynamics of order-making, violence and governance in peripheral cities in Latin America from a comparative, historical and multi-scalar approach. She focuses on the understanding of multiscalar processes shaping the local order in each city and the place of violence therein. While stressing the history of different places and contexts as well as subnational differences, she aims to discover more about the drivers and uneven levels of violence.
Viviana García Pinzón has been awarded the Christiane Rajewsky Prize 2023 and the ADLAF Dissertation Prize 2024 for her outstanding dissertation.
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