Violence at the urban margins / edited by Javier Auyero, Philippe Bourgois, Nancy Scheper-Hughes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Auyero, Javier.

Bourgois, Philippe I., 1956-

Scheper-Hughes, Nancy

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Series:

Global and comparative ethnography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban violence--North America.

Urban violence.

Urban violence--South America.

Urban poor--North America.

Urban poor.

Urban poor--South America.

South America.

North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 340 pages.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In the Americas, the middle and upper-middle classes and their concerns dominate debates around public safety. However, even a cursory count of the victims reveals that the people suffering the most from violence Live, and die, at the margins of urban societies. While those at the low end of the social order Live in danger, the discourse about violence and risk belongs to more advantaged others prone to view violence as evidence of a cultural or racial defect, rather than see a relationship to economic and political marginalization. As a result, the experience of interpersonal violence among the urban poor is constantly muted and denied. This volume of essays brings forth the everyday fear and trauma of Living in relegated territories. It features cutting-edge ethnographic research on the role of violence in the lives of the urban poor in South, Central, and North America, and sheds Light on the suffering that violence produces and perpetuates, as well as the individual and collective responses that violence generates among those Living at the urban margins. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part One: Shared Understandings.

1. The moral economy of murder: violence, death, and social order in Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers

2. The moral economy of violence in the US inner city: deadly sociability in the retail narcotics economy / George Karandinos, Laurie Hart, Fernando Montero Castrillo, and Philippe Bourgois

3. On the importance of having a positive attitude / Kevin Lewis O'Neill and Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela

Part Two: Gender and Masculinities.

4. "Es que para ellos el deporte es matar": rethinking the scripts of violent men in El Salvador and Brazil / Mo Hume and Polly Wilding

5. Duros and gangland girlfriends: male identity, gang socialization, and rape in Medellín / Adam Baird

Part Three: Being in Danger, What Do People Do?

6. Fear and spectacular drug violence in Monterrey / Ana Villarreal

7. Chismosas and Alcahuetas: being the mother of an Empistolado within the everyday armed violence of a Caracas Barrio / Verónica Zubillaga, Manuel Llorens, and John Souto

8. Managing in the midst of social disaster: poor people's responses to urban violence / Javier Auyero and Kristine Kilanski

9. When the police knock your door in / Alice Goffman

Part Four: Ethnographic Positions and the Politics of Violence.

10. Standpoint purgatorio: liminal fear and danger in studying the "Black and Brown" tension in Los Angeles / Randol Contreras

11. Death squads and vigilante politics in democratic Northeast Brazil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Postface: Insecurity, the war on drugs, and crimes of the State: symbolic violence in the Americas / Philippe Bourgois.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780190221461

0190221461

Publisher Number:

99968395901

40024839692

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