Why do governments embrace human rights discourses to justify policing that violates rights? Looking urban security interventions in Bogotá, this talk will explore the growing power of rights ideas, and the political benefits they can offer politicians across the ideological spectrum.
Speaker: Lindsay Mayka, Associate Professor of Government, Colby College
Moderated by Alisha Holland, Professor of Government, Harvard University
Presented in collaboration with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
About the Speaker
Lindsay Mayka is Associate Professor of Government at Colby College. She is the author of Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America: Reform Coalitions and Institutional Change (2019, Cambridge University Press). In 2020, Mayka received the Clarence Stone Scholar Award from APSA’s Urban and Local Politics Section. Her research has appeared in American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, Journal of Democracy, Journal of Development Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, PS: Political Science & Politics, and World Development.
About the Moderator
Alisha C. Holland studies the comparative political economy of development with a focus on Latin America. Her first book, Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America(Cambridge University Press, 2017), examines the politics of law enforcement against the poor. She is working on a new book on the institutional determinants and challenges of infrastructure investment in Latin America. Prior to joining the faculty, she was an assistant professor in the Politics Department at Princeton University and a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.
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