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Space of detention : the making of a transnational gang crisis between Los Angeles and San Salvador / Elana Zilberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zilberg, Elana, 1963-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gangs--California--Los Angeles.
- Gangs.
- Gangs--El Salvador--San Salvador.
- Salvadorans--California--Los Angeles.
- Salvadorans.
- Gangs--Government policy--United States.
- Gang prevention--United States.
- Gang prevention.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2011
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- An ethnographic analysis of the purported transnational gang crisis between the United States and El Salvador, based on extensive research in Los Angeles and San Salvador.
- Contents:
- Introduction: neoliberal securityscapes
- Chronology: the divided ends of peace
- Latino looter: law of place
- Street hoodlum: topographic reform
- Criminal cop: spatial justice
- Criminal deportee: transnational space
- Gang peace activist: the space of civil society
- Soldier cop: remitarized space
- The gang-crime-terrorism continuum
- Conclusion: hall of mirrors
- Epilogue: impressions from a political present.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed February 24, 2023)
- ISBN:
- 9786613333896
- 9781283333894
- 1283333899
- 9780822392804
- 0822392801
- OCLC:
- 1139400802
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