{"product_id":"mortal-doubt-9780520297098","title":"Mortal Doubt","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fear of violent crime dominates Guatemala City. In the midst of unprecedented levels of postwar violence, Guatemalans struggle to fathom the myriad forces that have made life in this city so deeply insecure. Born out of histories of state terror, migration, and US deportation,maras(transnational gangs) have become the face of this new era of violence. They are brutal organizations engaged in extortion, contract killings, and the drug trade, and yet they have also become essential to the emergence of a certain kind of social order.     Drawing on years of fieldwork inside prisons, police precincts, and gang-dominated neighborhoods, Anthony W. Fontes demonstrates how gang violence has become indissoluble from contemporary social imaginaries and how these gangs provide cover for a host of other criminal actors. Ethnographically rich and unflinchingly critical,Mortal Doubtilluminates the maras' role in making and mooring collective terror in Guatemala City while tracing the ties that bind this violence to those residing in far safer environs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The writing style is clear, concise, and compelling.\" * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"Describing Guatemala City as experiencing ‘unfathomable levels of postwar violence’, Fontes explores the rise and activities of the transnational gangs he blames for the ‘collective terror’ engulfing the city. He looks at how state terror, migration and US deportation have contributed to the problem.\" * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part One. Truths and Fictions\u003cbr\u003e Bring Out the Dead\u003cbr\u003e 1. Portrait of a “Real” Marero\u003cbr\u003e Brother’s Bones\u003cbr\u003e 2. Emissaries of the Violent Peace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Two. Worlds and Underworlds\u003cbr\u003e The Road to Prison\u003cbr\u003e 3. Porous Prisons\u003cbr\u003e The Prisoners and the Cascabel\u003cbr\u003e 4. Extorted Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Three. Spectacle, Structure, and Agency\u003cbr\u003e Make It a Global\u003cbr\u003e 5. Made-for-Media Murder\u003cbr\u003e Farewell, Guatemala City\u003cbr\u003e 6. Liminal Redemption\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Of Violent Others and Orders of Violence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Notes on Methodology\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402899595607,"sku":"9780520297098","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520297098.jpg?v=1730481807","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mortal-doubt-9780520297098","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}