Violence at the urban margins /
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015] ©2015 |
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| Description: | x, 340 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10162825 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1. Shared Understandings
- 1. The Moral Economy of Murder: Violence, Death, and Social Order in Nicaragua
- 2. The Moral Economy of Violence in the US Inner City: Deadly Sociability in the Retail Narcotics Economy
- 3. On the Importance of Having a Positive Attitude
- Part 2. Gender and Masculinities
- 4. "Es que para ellos el deporte es matar": Rethinking the Scripts of Violent Men in El Salvador and Brazil
- 5. Duros and Gangland Girlfriends: Male Identity, Gang Socialization, and Rape in Medellin
- Part 3. Being In Danger, What Do People Do?
- 6. Fear and Spectacular Drug Violence in Monterrey
- 7. Chismosas and Alcahuctas: Being the Mother of an Empistolado within the Everyday Armed Violence of a Caracas Barrio
- 8. Managing in the Midst of Social Disaster: Poor People's Responses to Urban Violence
- 9. When the Police Knock Your Door In
- Part 4. Ethnographic Positions and the Politics of Violence
- 10. Standpoint Purgatorio: Liminal Fear and Danger in Studying the "Black and Brown" Tension in Los Angeles
- 11. Death Squads and Vigilante Politics in Democratic Northeast Brazil
- Postface: Insecurity, the War on Drugs, and Crimes of the State: Symbolic. Violence in the Americas
- Index
