Resisting Protection? Variations in Forms of Resistence to Protection Rackets
Eduardo Moncada
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Barnard College – Columbia University
About the Speaker: Professor Moncada’s research agenda focuses on the political factors that shape the dynamics and consequences of urban violence and local democracy and development. His first book, Cities, Business and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America, analyzes and explains the ways in which major developing world cities respond to the challenge of urban violence. His talk will focus on the question: Do the victims of protection rackets resist?
Monday, January 30th
12:15pm–1:30pm | Oak 438
Free and Open to the Public
For more information, contact: Tom Hayes at thomas.hayes@uconn.edu