Gavin Weston

Guatemalan Vigilantism and the Global (Re)Production of Collective Violence (eBook, ePUB)

A Tale of Two Lynchings

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book grounds an understanding of lynching as an increasingly globalized phenomenon through examination of two cases in Guatemala. The chapters cover migration, tourism, gangs, inter-generational conflict, media, gossip and rumour to understand patterns of mob-based vigilantism and how diverse factors are funnelled into acts of violence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429575501
• Artikelnr.: 57542596

Autorenporträt

Gavin Weston is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1
Introduction: Two lynchings
a microcosm Chapter 2
Todos Santos Chapter 3
A Post
war Phenomenon? Chapter 4
Vigilantism, Dissonance, and the Guatemalan State Chapter 5
Scapegoats, Gossip, and Rumour Chapter 6
Dissemination: Vigilantism, and the Media Chapter 7
The Blurred Boundaries of Violence Chapter 8
Concluding thoughts/lingering problems