Policing protest in Argentina and Chile / Michelle D. Bonner.

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Bonner (Univ. of Victoria, Canada) investigates how protests are policed in Argentina and Chile with an emphasis on events from the 1990s through 2011. Bonner depicts how politicians, police officials, social activists, and mass media discuss protest activity and the interactions between police and protesters. She constructs her narrative via archival and secondary research complemented by elite interviews. After a compelling introductory chapter that clarifies the multiple issues in play, Bonner advances a theory of discursive accountability of malfeasance. Each national case study then proceeds with four chapters detailing the historical evolution of protest policing, contemporary discourses on protest policing, media coverage, and an in-depth treatment of a contemporary clash between police and protesters. Bonner argues that a law-and-order frame prevails in contemporary Chile and that a human-rights frame dominates in Argentina. Her examination of media coverage is comprehensive, and her histories of protest policing are well written. Some readers may find that the investigation of stakeholder discourses could have benefited from additional interviews (perhaps especially with street-level police officers). Bonner has generated a readable examination of an important yet infrequently studied topic--protest policing. --Charles Henry Blake, James Madison University