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Architecture, Territory, and Networks of Illegality
Architecture and urban planning can address territorial violence through care, land regulation and community life. Feminist urbanism proposes safer, more equitable and livable cities built around everyday life and collective needs.

Gabriela M Gonzalez & Anabela Roitman


The Value of What Is Not Sold
Selling a confiscated asset can recover money. Returning it to society can mean much more: reclaiming territory, rebuilding communities, and transforming what was once a source of criminal power into public value.

Emiliano Cottini


Criminal Governance and Deregulatory Neoliberalism
In the greater Buenos Aires area, territorial disputes between gangs are adding homemade machine guns and a new dimension of violence in San Martín.

Leonardo Grosso & Pablo Amarante


Pablo Escobar and the State’s Luddite Reflex
How the State’s fragmented and uncoordinated response to drug trafficking resembles the Luddite logic: destroying instruments without transforming structures.

Lucas Manjon


The Morgue as a Political Laboratory
The debate on the age of criminal responsibility requires evidence, institutional capacity, and victim support — not urgent responses without real ability to implement them.

Lucas Manjon


The crime is being a democracy
Organized crime, exception, and power: an analysis of how security becomes a political argument in contemporary democracies.

Lucas Manjon


A new Odebrecht — powdered and white
Since the 21st century, global crises have entrenched a politics of fear that cut rights and weakened democracy; in Latin America, drug trafficking revives old forms of interference.

Lucas Manjon


It’s the economy, stupid: fentanyl, drugs, and accumulation
Fentanyl made it possible to reduce costs, expand supply, and massify consumption. When pain becomes a business and turns into an opportunity.

Lucas Manjon
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