Vol. 12 No. 24 (2023): Guerra y derecho en América Latina: entre las disposiciones y las prácticas; entre la excepción y la norma (siglo XIX)

This special issue explores the complex relationship between law, war, and politics through the articulation of the civil and military sphere in Latin American during the 19th century. This question is addressed through long-term studies, comparative approaches, theoretical reflections on the relevance of the chronologies, categories and conceptual tools used, and case studies focused on armies, militias, auxiliary forces, insurgent groups and others. The contributions of this special issue address elements such as ethnicity, otherness and the construction of the adversary, threat management, the relationship between norms and violence, the institutionalization of informal military authorities, the exercise of popular sovereignty, the ordinary normative apparatus, and the place of regimes of exception. Conerning the approach, it aims to overcome a logic centered on the purely normative dimension to appreciate this aspect in its relationship with the devices of circulation and reception, concrete practices and the experience of the actors.