Criminal Governance in Times of Post-Chávez Revolution and Questioned Legitimacy: A Look at the Different Territorial Orders and Armed Actors in Caracas

• Autor(a) principal: Zubillaga, Verónica
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Hanson, Rebecca, Sánchez, Francisco Javier
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Dilemas : Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/dilemas/article/view/46866
• topic: criminal governance, collaborative governance, armed territorial orders, armed despotism; governança criminal, governança híbrida, ordens territoriais armadas, despotismo armado

This paper compares the configuration of two armed territorial orders and the forms of local governance in neo-patrimonial authoritarian contexts in Caracas that suffer from what has been called a “complex humanitarian crisis”. We dialogue with the concepts of collaborative governance and criminal governance to understand how social control functions locally in an authoritarian context where a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis has restricted the resources and scope of government. The Venezuelan case reveals with special interest the processes of mutation in the relations between armed actors and a fragmented State for social control functions in their territories in a context of contested legitimacy.