In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle classes. However, a cursory count of the victims of urban violence in the Americas reveals that the people suffering the most from violence live, and die, at the lowest of the socio-symbolic order, at the margins of urban societies.
In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle classes. However, a cursory count of the victims of urban violence in the Americas reveals that the people suffering the most from violence live, and die, at the lowest of the socio-symbolic order, at the margins of urban societies.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Javier Auyero is Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. Philippe Bourgois is a Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology & Family and Community Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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* Acknowledgements * Introduction * Kristine Kilanski and Javier Auyero * Section 1: Shared Understandings * Chapter One: The Moral Economy of Murder: Violence, Death, and Social Order in Nicaragua * Dennis Rodgers * Chapter Two: The Moral Economy of Violence in the US Inner City * George Karandinos, Laurie Hart, Fernando Montero Castrillo, and Philippe Bourgois * Chapter Three: On the Importance of Having a Positive Attitude * Kevin Lewis O'Neill and Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela * Section 2: Gender and Masculinities * Chapter Four: 'Es que para ellos el deporte es matar': Rethinking the scripts of violent men in El Salvador and Brazil * Mo Hume and Polly Wilding * Chapter Five: Duros and Gangland Girlfriends: Male Identity, Gang Socialisation and Rape in Medellín * Adam Baird * Section 3: Being in danger, what do people do? * Chapter Six: Fear and Spectacular Drug Violence in Monterrey * Ana Villarreal * Chapter Seven: 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 * Chapter Eight: Managing in the Midst of Social Disaster: Poor People's Responses to Urban Violence * Javier Auyero and Kristine Kilanski * Chapter Nine: When the Police Knock Your Door In * Alice Goffman * Section 4: Ethnographic positions and the politics of violence * Chapter Ten: Standpoint Purgatorio: Liminal Fear and Danger in Studying the "Black and Brown" Tension in Los Angeles * Randol Contreras * Chapter Eleven: When the Rule of Law is Irrelevant: Death Squads and Vigilante Politics in Democratic North East Brazil * Nancy Scheper-Hughes * Postface * Philippe Bourgois * Notes * Bibliography * Index
* Acknowledgements * Introduction * Kristine Kilanski and Javier Auyero * Section 1: Shared Understandings * Chapter One: The Moral Economy of Murder: Violence, Death, and Social Order in Nicaragua * Dennis Rodgers * Chapter Two: The Moral Economy of Violence in the US Inner City * George Karandinos, Laurie Hart, Fernando Montero Castrillo, and Philippe Bourgois * Chapter Three: On the Importance of Having a Positive Attitude * Kevin Lewis O'Neill and Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela * Section 2: Gender and Masculinities * Chapter Four: 'Es que para ellos el deporte es matar': Rethinking the scripts of violent men in El Salvador and Brazil * Mo Hume and Polly Wilding * Chapter Five: Duros and Gangland Girlfriends: Male Identity, Gang Socialisation and Rape in Medellín * Adam Baird * Section 3: Being in danger, what do people do? * Chapter Six: Fear and Spectacular Drug Violence in Monterrey * Ana Villarreal * Chapter Seven: 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 * Chapter Eight: Managing in the Midst of Social Disaster: Poor People's Responses to Urban Violence * Javier Auyero and Kristine Kilanski * Chapter Nine: When the Police Knock Your Door In * Alice Goffman * Section 4: Ethnographic positions and the politics of violence * Chapter Ten: Standpoint Purgatorio: Liminal Fear and Danger in Studying the "Black and Brown" Tension in Los Angeles * Randol Contreras * Chapter Eleven: When the Rule of Law is Irrelevant: Death Squads and Vigilante Politics in Democratic North East Brazil * Nancy Scheper-Hughes * Postface * Philippe Bourgois * Notes * Bibliography * Index
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