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10 Race & Just. 3 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/rcjstc10 and id is 1 raw text is: Article Race and justice 2020, Vol. 10(1) 3-19 Community Justice, @TheAuthor(s)2017 Article reuse guidelines: Ancestral Rights and sageu1.7com'7our5's-permissions DOI: 10.1177/2153368717713824 Lynching in Rural Bolivia jora'ssagepubcom'home'rai *SAGE Donna Yates' Abstract Lynching in Bolivia has been portrayed as a largely routinized and primarily urban occurrence that is a direct response to the state's inability to provide security. Using a recent case of rural lynching as a starting point, I will evaluate the idea of rural Bolivian lynching in Indigenous communities as vigilantism. I contrast what little is known about rural lynching in Bolivia to the known pattern of urban lynching and ask whether these are distinct phenomena. Finally, I discuss the idea of ancestral validation and the punishment rights implied by a western-style state sanctioning aspects of non-western justice. I ask, do our existing models for such extreme cases as fatal vigilantism exclude lynching in rural Indigenous Bolivian communities? At the heart of this discussion is how we define a cultural practice versus how we define deviance in a multicultural society; how we nest authority structures and how we afford them legitimate rights to the use of force and other extreme control measures. Keywords Indigenous people, race/ethnicity, Latin Americans, race and policing, lynching, race and death penalty, community corrections, race and corrections Community Justice in Bolivia Since the mid-1990s, anthropologists and sociologists have recorded an increase in incidents ofjusticia comunitaria (community justice) among the residents of Bolivia's marginalized Indigenous communities (e.g., Goldstein, 2003, 2004, 2012; Goldstein & Castro, 2006). A general definition ofjusticia comunitaria has its foundation in the idea that community tribunals, acting in accordance with socially relevant definitions ' Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom Corresponding Author: Donna Yates, Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Glasgow, Ivy Lodge, 63 Gibson Street, Glasgow G 12 8LR, United Kingdom. Email: donna.yates@glasgow.ac.uk

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