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

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 Wa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©2016
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 30 halftones.
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Table of 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