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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This volume must be appreciated not simply for the breadth of cases that it features but also for the collective work of its authors in refashioning a century of theory that relegated the gang to oddball status." —Sudhir Venkatesh, from the Afterword
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Gangs in a Global Comparative Perspective
Dennis Rodgers and Jennifer M. Hazen
Part I. Gang Formation and Transformation
1. Intimate Connections: Gangs and the Political Economy of Urbanization in South Africa
Steffen Jensen
2. Cholo! The Migratory Origins of Chicano Gangs in Los Angeles
James Diego Vigil
3. Capitalizing on Change: Gangs, Ideology, and the Transition to a Liberal Economy in the Russian Federation
Alexander Salagaev and Rustem Safin
4. Of Marginality and “Little Emperors”: The Changing Reality of Chinese Youth Gangs
Lening Zhang
5. From Black Jackets to Zulus: Social Imagination, Myth, and Reality Concerning French Gangs
Marwan Mohammed
6. Maras and the Politics of Violence in El Salvador
José Miguel Cruz
Part II. Problematizing Gangs
7. Youth Gangs and Otherwise in Indonesia
Loren Ryter
8. “Playing the Game”: Gang/Militia Logics in War-Torn Sierra Leone
Mats Utas
9. “For Your Safety”: Child Vigilante Squads and Neo-Gangsterism in Urban India
Atreyee Sen
10. “We Are the True Blood of the Mau Mau”: The Mungiki Movement in Kenya
Jacob Rasmussen
11. Gang Politics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Enrique Desmond Arias
12. “Hecho en Mexico”: Gangs, Identities, and the Politics of Public Security
Gareth A. Jones
Afterword: The Inevitable Gang
Sudhir Venkatesh
Contributors
Index
