id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ctv46udfszfozd42wsccaq4hdq Daniel M. Goldstein Flexible Justice 2005 24 .pdf application/pdf 11938 824 53 Flexible Justice: Neoliberal Violence and 'Self-Help' Security in Bolivia Abstract ■ As Bolivia has restructured its economic and political sectors according to a neoliberal model, citizens have been required to become more 'flexible' This violence is quotidian – it marks the everyday lives of poor, marginalized (and, in Bolivia, indigenous) people, creating a profound sense of violence, in a futile effort to control crime and as a response to the nationstate's neglect of their own rights to justice and security in their communities. I thus suggest that lynchings in Bolivia today be understood as a kind of neoliberal violence, produced both by the scarcities and forms of 'privatization of justice' in Bolivia, including police corruption and justice system to its people has been one of the key sources of state delegitimation in Bolivia today, and pertains directly to the neoliberal restructuring of the nation so visibly denounced in the Gas War. Even as the national ./cache/work_ctv46udfszfozd42wsccaq4hdq.pdf ./txt/work_ctv46udfszfozd42wsccaq4hdq.txt