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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Deborah T. LevensonPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.445kg ISBN: 9780822352990ISBN 10: 0822352990 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 09 April 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Rise and Fall of Tomorrow 1 1. Death and Politics, 1950s–2000s 21 2. 1980s: The Gangs to Live For 53 3. 1990s and Beyond: The Gangs to Die For 77 4. Democracy and Lock-Up 105 5. Open Ending 129 Notes 145 Bibliography 161 Index 177ReviewsA study that will take us beyond the common sense of what we know about gangs. Levenson creates a deep and dense explanation about death, violence and evil. The case under study --the Guatemalan gangs-- is a paradigmatic one about how ordinary people become evil. This book is the result of an incredible, original, ethnographic fieldwork, developed --as usual in a country like Guatemala-- in dangerous conditions. For this reason, this study also offers many methodological lessons for researchers. Adios Nino plunges us into the deep darkness of the underworld. This is a first-class piece of social interpretation, and an example of high quality anthropology. --Manolo E. Vela Castaneda, author of Los Pelotones de la Muerte: La Construccion de los Perpetradores del Genocidio Guatemalteco A must-read account of how the gangs of Guatemala were shaped by war and politics. Chilling and important. --John M. Hagedorn, author of A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture<br> Author InformationDeborah T. Levenson is Associate Professor of History at Boston College. She is the author of Trade Unionists against Terror: Guatemala City, 1954–1985 and a coeditor of The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics, also published by Duke University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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