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Winners 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

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List 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

In Harms Way The Dynamics of Urban Violence

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 02/08/2016
      ISBN13: 9780691173030, 978-0691173030
      ISBN10: 0691173036
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      Poverty and precarity Violence and abuse in society

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      Winners 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 Contents
      List 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

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