@inbook{aaecd011a0aa4e2e86c8b2a999070de4,
title = "The blurred (in)security of community policing in Bolivia",
abstract = "This chapter looks at what happens when official blueprints such as community policing based on the principle of non-violence, become entangled with {\textquoteleft}informal{\textquoteright} order-making in Bolivia in places where the state{\textquoteright}s presence is precarious. When well-meaning and normally law-abiding barrio residents organized in neighborhood councils try to work within a formal scheme of community policing, they also slowly occupy a space for action left open by the state to exercise vigilante-like justice. Based on fieldwork in a suburban area of La Paz, Bolivia, we demonstrate not only that security is blurred in this process, but also that this blurring creates insecurity. We call this phenomenon {\textquoteleft}blurred (in)security{\textquoteright}, using the term (in)security here to underline the subjective and self-identified character of {\textquoteleft}security{\textquoteright}. The chapter focuses on the productivity of acts to {\textquoteleft}make security{\textquoteright} in the interface between official and unofficial ideas and practices. In this respect, the chapter concludes that global community-policing {\textquoteleft}blueprints{\textquoteright} have become something else in practice among local communities and that ultimately, the practice of community policing produces blurred (in)security.",
keywords = "Security, Community policing, Bolivia, Insecurity, Security, Community policing, Bolivia, Insecurity",
author = "Jakobsen, {Line Jespersgaard} and Lars Buur",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.4324/9781351127387-7",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780815356769",
series = "Routledge Studies in Anthropology",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "51",
pages = "100--117",
editor = "Tessa Diphoorn and Erella Grassiani",
booktitle = "Security Blurs",
}