From South Central to Southside: Gang Transnationalism, Masculinity, and Disorganized Violence in Belize City: Studies in Transgression
Autor Adam Bairden Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 iul 2024
From South Central to Southside charts the genesis and evolution of a transnational gang culture. Baird provides firsthand interviews with gang members and “narco” families and explains the surprising source of Belize City’s severe violence and skyrocketing homicide rates. He identifies gang violence in the U.S. and Belize as stemming from populations blighted by historical, brutal inequality and marginalization. Analyzing the gendered dynamics as young men and women face the temptations, risks, and dangers of gang life, Baird shines a light on “chronic vulnerability" in Belize City.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781439923344
ISBN-10: 1439923345
Pagini: 217
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția Temple University Press
Seria Studies in Transgression
ISBN-10: 1439923345
Pagini: 217
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția Temple University Press
Seria Studies in Transgression
Recenzii
“From South Central to Southside is a hugely important book offering a fine-grained and engagingly written study of the Bloods and Crips in Belize, a country generally overlooked by gang studies. In it, Adam Baird does something few gang researchers manage to do—he weaves together a proper political economy of violence that links structural factors like the enduring legacies of colonialism and slavery, transnational migration, and oligarchic politics with the everyday experience of poverty, gendered brutality, and police repression. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand gang dynamics in Belize andeverywhere.”—Dennis Rodgers, Research Professor in Anthropology and Sociology and Director of the European Research Council’s GANGS project at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland
“Baird’s examination of the complex web of factors shaping gang culture in Belize is groundbreaking. By integrating ethnographic research with a deep dive into colonial history, Baird provides us with a rich understanding of the foundations for Belizean gangs, as well as the spikes of violence that often surround them. But what sets his analysis apart is his exploration of ‘transnational masculinity’ and its widespread implications for both Belize and the region writ large. From South Central to Southside helps us better place gangs in the larger context of the corrosive, hypermasculine behavior that accompanies gang activity, making it required reading for anyone trying to tackle this difficult problem.”—Steven Dudley, cofounder of InSight Crime, and author of MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang
"I find myself thinking repeatedly about Adam Baird’s book months after having read it, pained by the vulnerability of the Belizeans he presents and the global colonial and ongoing imperial and neoliberal political economic forces he picks apart. He forces us to confront both the local and the global political economic forces implicating all of us."–From the foreword by Philippe Bourgois, author of Righteous Dopefiend
"The work is...extremely well structured, researched, and written. It is derived from [Baird's] field research trips in Belize."—C/O Futures
"An illuminating study about gangs and systemic inequality."—Library Journal
“Baird’s examination of the complex web of factors shaping gang culture in Belize is groundbreaking. By integrating ethnographic research with a deep dive into colonial history, Baird provides us with a rich understanding of the foundations for Belizean gangs, as well as the spikes of violence that often surround them. But what sets his analysis apart is his exploration of ‘transnational masculinity’ and its widespread implications for both Belize and the region writ large. From South Central to Southside helps us better place gangs in the larger context of the corrosive, hypermasculine behavior that accompanies gang activity, making it required reading for anyone trying to tackle this difficult problem.”—Steven Dudley, cofounder of InSight Crime, and author of MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang
"I find myself thinking repeatedly about Adam Baird’s book months after having read it, pained by the vulnerability of the Belizeans he presents and the global colonial and ongoing imperial and neoliberal political economic forces he picks apart. He forces us to confront both the local and the global political economic forces implicating all of us."–From the foreword by Philippe Bourgois, author of Righteous Dopefiend
"The work is...extremely well structured, researched, and written. It is derived from [Baird's] field research trips in Belize."—C/O Futures
"An illuminating study about gangs and systemic inequality."—Library Journal
Notă biografică
Adam Baird is a Researcher at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. He is the coeditor of Paz, paso a paso: Una mirada a los conflictos colombianos desde los estudios de paz.