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[Deborah T. Levenson] ä Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death ↠ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death A historical study, Adiós Niño describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration turned into rigid and violent ones in which youth, and especially young men, came to employ death as a natural way of living for the short period that they expected to survive. Levenson relates the stark changes in the Maras to global, national, and urban deterioration; transregional gangs that intersect with the drug trade; and the Guatemalan military's obliteration of radical popular
| Title | : | Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.13 (642 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822353156 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-24 |
| Language | : | English |
"Professor Levenson's book is the winner of the New England Council of Latin American Studies Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize" according to Walter E. Little. That Guatemala is plagued by ongoing political and social problems is, sadly, not surprising, but for scholars who have dedicated their lives to trying to understand the roots of this violence and why it persists can be incredibly difficult and disheartening. The shift from state-sponsored forms of violence, large. Jennifer Barcellos said Historical read about Gangs in Guatemala. This is an excellent book with detailed statistics and exploration of how gangs began in Guatemala and why. Very educational. Rare insights Terry As an extranet this book was a revelation. It helps to understand the difficulties that poor children have in this country, even if they want to "better" themselves.It does not offer solutions.It is scholarly which can make it hard to follow.
Vela Castañeda, author of Los pelotones de la muerte: La construcción de los perpetradores del genocidio guatemalteco. "Adios Niño is a first-class piece of social interpretation that plunges us deep into the darkness of the underworld. The result of incredible ethnographic fieldwork developed in dangerous conditions, it offers many methodological lessons for researchers."—Manolo E
A historical study, Adiós Niño describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration turned into rigid and violent ones in which youth, and especially young men, came to employ death as a natural way of living for the short period that they expected to survive. Levenson relates the stark changes in the Maras to global, national, and urban deterioration; transregional gangs that intersect with the drug trade; and the Guatemalan military's obliteration of radical popular movements and of social imaginaries of solidarity. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early 2000s. In Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Portraying the Maras as microcosms of broader tragedies, and pointing out the difficulties faced by those youth who seek to escape the gangs, Levenson poses important questions about the relationsh
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