{"product_id":"space-of-detention-9780822347309","title":"Space of Detention","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ethnographic analysis of the purported transnational gang crisis between the United States and El Salvador, based on extensive research in Los Angeles and San Salvador.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[H]er analysis has much to offer geographers interested in policy transfer and harmonization…. Zilberg is able to offer a rich analysis of the intersections of Cold War militarism, transnational migration, urban restructuring, criminalization, and postconflict governmental reform in a predominantly ‘sending country’. - Lauren Martin, \u003ci\u003eEnvironment and Planning D: Society and Space \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Elana Zilberg’s book contributes to emerging scholarship making the important connections between the war on gangs, the war on drugs, and the war on terror as a continuation of US empire…. This book provides important empirical evidence to tracing the origins of post-9\/11 anti-terror legislation, acts, and attitudes while providing the reader a point from which to analyze the militarization of public space today. Overall, the book is a wise choice for graduate and undergraduate courses and scholars concerned with security states and subject formation.” - Cristobal Valencia, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Anthopological Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSpace of Detention\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book, one based on a fascinating and extremely impressive body of ethnographic work… [T]he book succeeds in so many ways that it merits a wide audience.” - Joseph Nevins, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Zilberg endeavors to uncover realities normally obscured, and to situate anti-gang discourse and policies within a broader framework than hegemonic discourse allows.” - Steve Herbert, \u003ci\u003eTheoretical Criminology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Zilberg’s audiences have waited a long time for this book, and it will not disappoint. Even as it refuses to be the exposé on gangs that some may expect, it offers a powerful and original account of interlocking global processes of capitalism and criminalization.” - Ellen Moodie, \u003ci\u003eAnthropological Quarterly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ambitious in scope and scale, \u003ci\u003eSpace of Detention\u003c\/i\u003e is a perceptive\u003cbr\u003eand beautifully written volume that will appeal to graduate students and researchers in the fields of Latin American studies, critical criminology, and anthropology, as well as urban and cultural studies. Grounded in rich ethnographic detail, the study not only serves as a reminder that accurate gang assessments are indispensable for effective gang policies but also persuasively exposes the social, migration, and justice consequences of repressive policing.” - Sonja Wolf, \u003ci\u003eCurrent Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This incredibly compelling ethnography bristles with insights into such matters as the integrated landscapes of San Salvador and Los Angeles, the nature of the ‘community’ on whose behalf post-riot Los Angeles was rebuilt, and the ways that anti-gang strategies paradoxically produce and reproduce gangs. Elana Zilberg’s discussion of how policing strategies feed into and take on the characteristics of gangs is superb. \u003ci\u003eSpace of Detention\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant contribution to scholarly understandings of security, space, and movement, and it is fascinating reading, based on years of complicated and original ethnographic research.”—\u003cb\u003eSusan Bibler Coutin\u003c\/b\u003e, author of\u003ci\u003e Nation of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a viscerally powerful read that will be a revelation for anyone who lives with a constant background of gang violence in Los Angeles. Shifting focus between media images and vivid ethnographic material—from sustained, recursive fieldwork conducted during a turbulent period in the recent history of American empire—Elana Zilberg achieves both the most intelligent and the most charged application of Benjamin’s method of dialectical images in the annals of contemporary ethnography.”—\u003cb\u003eGeorge E. Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e, co-author of \u003ci\u003eDesigns for an Anthropology of the Contemporary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSpace of Detention\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book, one based on a fascinating and extremely impressive body of ethnographic work… [T]he book succeeds in so many ways that it merits a wide audience.” -- Joseph Nevins * Journal of American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e“Her analysis has much to offer geographers interested in policy transfer and harmonization…. Zilberg is able to offer a rich analysis of the intersections of Cold War militarism, transnational migration, urban restructuring, criminalization, and postconflict governmental reform in a predominantly ‘sending country’. -- Lauren Martin * Environment and Planning D *\u003cbr\u003e“Elana Zilberg’s book contributes to emerging scholarship making the important connections between the war on gangs, the war on drugs, and the war on terror as a continuation of US empire…. This book provides important empirical evidence to tracing the origins of post-9\/11 anti-terror legislation, acts, and attitudes while providing the reader a point from which to analyze the militarization of public space today. Overall, the book is a wise choice for graduate and undergraduate courses and scholars concerned with security states and subject formation.” -- Cristobal Valencia * Journal of Anthropological Research *\u003cbr\u003e“Zilberg endeavors to uncover realities normally obscured, and to situate anti-gang discourse and policies within a broader framework than hegemonic discourse allows.” -- Steve Herbert * Theoretical Criminology *\u003cbr\u003e“Zilberg’s audiences have waited a long time for this book, and it will not disappoint. Even as it refuses to be the exposé on gangs that some may expect, it offers a powerful and original account of interlocking global processes of capitalism and criminalization.” -- Ellen Moodie * Anthropological Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Neoliberal Securityscapes 1\u003cbr\u003e Chronology. The Divided Ends of Peace 25\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Los Angeles \u003cbr\u003e 1. Latino Looter: Law of Place 53\u003cbr\u003e 2. Street Hoodlum: Topographic Reform 75\u003cbr\u003e 3. Criminal Cop: Spatial Justice 101\u003cbr\u003e Part II. San Salvador \u003cbr\u003e 4. Criminal Deportee: Transnational Space 129\u003cbr\u003e 5. Gang Peace Activist: The Space of Civil Society 151\u003cbr\u003e 6. Soldier Cop: Remilitarized Space 177\u003cbr\u003e Part III. A Disturbance in Time and Space \u003cbr\u003e 7. The Gang-Crime-Terrorism Continuum 207\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Hall of Mirrors 233\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Impressions from a Political Present 241\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments 251\u003cbr\u003e Notes 259\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 301\u003cbr\u003e Index 333","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406060233047,"sku":"9780822347309","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822347309.jpg?v=1730494394","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/space-of-detention-9780822347309","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}