LASA price: Best Book 2024 by the section "Defense, Public Security and Democracy" from the Latin American Studies Association LASA

Her book, Trajectories of Governance: Tracing the Entanglements of Order and Violence in Peripheral Cities of Latin America (Bristol University Press, 2024), is based on her doctoral dissertation and offers a profound analysis of multiscalar processes shaping local order in four peripheral cities in Colombia and El Salvador. It highlights the importance of historical context and subnational variation in understanding the dynamics of violence and governance in Latin America. 

This is the third major recognition for her dissertation. In 2024 she was awarded the First Prize of the ADLAF Dissertation Award by the German Association for Research on Latin America (ADLAF), and she had previously received the Christiane Rajewsky Prize for the same work. 

Dr. García Pinzón conducted her research as part of the GIGA Doctoral Programme and is currently a senior researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI) in Freiburg. Her work contributes to the understanding of governance and violence in Latin American cities. 

We warmly congratulate Viviana on this outstanding achievement and her continued academic success!