Encounters with Violence in Latin America: Urban Poor Perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala Contributor(s): McIlwaine, Cathy (Author), Moser, Caroline (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415258642 ISBN-13: 9780415258647 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2003 Annotation: Latin America is one of the world's fastest-developing regions, yet also a hub area for crime and violence, where the links between social exclusion, inequality, and violence are clearly visible. Drug crime, robbery, international trafficking, gang violence, and domestic violence destabilize countries' economies and harm their people and social structures. Encounters With Violence in Latin America, written by specialists on development in the region, takes examples from Colombia and Guatemala to create a complete theory of how and why violence takes place. Considering the various types of political, social, and economic violence that afflict communities, and asking local people about their own experiences as mediated by family, gender, ethnicity, and age, it measures the costs and consequences of violence, giving a voice to those whose daily lives are dominated by widespread aggression. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Violence In Society - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
Dewey: 303.609 |
LCCN: 2003058413 |
Lexile Measure: 1460 |
Physical Information: 0.84" H x 6.28" W x 9.52" (1.22 lbs) 288 pages |
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Publisher Description: Latin America is both the world's most urbanized fastest developing regions, where the links between social exclusion, inequality and violence are clearly visible. The banal, ubiquitous nature of drug crime, robbery, gang and intra-family violence destabilizes countries' economies and harms their people and social structures. |