Criminal Governance and Questioned Legitimacy: Territorial Orders and Armed Actors in Caracas?

Based on the analysis of ethnographic data, Verónica Zubillaga, PhD will discuss 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 especially reveals 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.