In Harm's Way : The Dynamics of Urban Violence / María Fernanda Berti, Javier Auyero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auyero, Javier, author.

Berti, María Fernanda, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides-often involving young people-continue to skyrocket, and in the emergency room there, victims of shootings or knifings are an all-too-common sight. In Harm's Way takes a harrowing look at daily life in Arquitecto Tucci, examining the sources, uses, and forms of interpersonal violence among the urban poor at the very margins of Argentine society.Drawing on more than two years of immersive fieldwork, sociologist Javier Auyero and María Berti, an elementary school teacher in the neighborhood, provide a powerful and disarmingly intimate account of what it is like to live under the constant threat of violence. They argue that being physically aggressive becomes a habitual way of acting in poor and marginalized communities, and that violence is routine and carries across various domains of public and private life. Auyero and Berti trace how different types of violence-be it criminal, drug related, sexual, or domestic-overlap, intersect, and blur together. They show how the state is complicit in the production of harm, and describe the routines and relationships that residents, particularly children, establish to cope with and respond to the constant risk that besieges them and their loved ones.Provocative, eye-opening, and extraordinarily moving, In Harm's Way is destined to become a classic work on violence at the urban margins.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. El Barrio and La Feria: Daily Life at the Urban Margins

Chapter 2. Born amid Bullets: Concatenated Violence(s)

Chapter 3. The State at the Margins

Chapter 4. Ethics and Politics amid Violence

Conclusion. Toward a Political Sociology of Urban Marginality

Acknowledgments

Methodological Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-238) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691173030

0691173036

OCLC:

907676426