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Book SynopsisArquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides--often involving young people--continue to skyrocket, and in the emergency room there, victims of shootings or knifings are an all-too-common sight. In Harm's Way takes a harrowing look at daily life in Arquitecto
Trade ReviewWinners of the 2016 Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association "An important ethnography that, with a focus on social relations and not on individuals, meaningfully advances our understandings of violence and the lives of impoverished dwellers. As with good books, this one also inspires reflection and questions, perhaps for future research."--Cecilia Menjivar, American Journal of Sociology
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Preface xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1 El Barrio and La Feria: Daily Life at the Urban Margins 30 Chapter 2 Born amid Bullets: Concatenated Violence(s) 66 Chapter 3 The State at the Margins 108 Chapter 4 Ethics and Politics amid Violence 135 Conclusion: Toward a Political Sociology of Urban Marginality 161 Acknowledgments 181 Methodological Appendix 185 Notes 197 Bibliography 207 Index 239
