In recent decades, the spread of violence in Latin America has been accompanied by a large number of investigations that try to explain it. Most analyzes continue to privilege exceptionality, the contingent, the abnormal. This extends the idea of violence as something that happens in impoverished or backward regions. Contrary to these interpretations, this book offers a set of studies that analyze violence as a generalized process in which forces (physical, epistemic, psychological, symbolic) are combined with the aim of producing material differences in collective environments. The critique of violence is based on its historical analysis, it is studied as a procedure inscribed in power relations, which functions to articulate collective interactions. The essays in this book explain the materiality of violence as a result of social communities, which depending on historical movements acquire more or less visibility, configure their practices in more or less sophisticated ways, more or less lethal, more or less cruel. The set of works allows us to understand the central role that violence plays in defining the meaning of collective life in the contemporary world.