Screen LibraryIn harm's way : the dynamics of urban violence /
"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&#...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"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 |
| Item Description: | "Second printing, first paperback printing, 2016" |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-238) and index. |
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9780691173030 (paperback) : 0691173036 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | HN270 |
| CLC: | D778.388 |
| Call Number: | D778.388/A943-1 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- El Barrio and La Feria: daily life at the urban margins -- Born amid bullets: concatenated violences(s) -- The state at the margins -- Ethics and politics amid violence -- Toward a political sociology of urban marginality. |