Description
Book SynopsisWhat does it mean to be a child or an adolescent growing up on the streets or in a state institution? How do children define their everyday lives in the midst of global processes? This ethnographic study situates childhood and adolescence as social forms in the complex urban world of Caracas, Venezuela.
Trade Review"Centering on a series of dramatic life histories and interviews in which the street children provide stunningly insightful and poetically expressed analyses of their own situations, Márquez's book is compellingly written and excellently thought out, makes theoretical contributions, and portrays a fascinating situation with insights that will be useful to scholars in a variety of fields." -- Linda-Anne Rebhun * Yale University *
"The book's strength lies in the extraordinarily detailed and up-close look the reader receives of street life and its fragilities . . . in telling and at times graphic detail. . . . One of the most recent and best examples of what empirical studies of the Third World informal sector can be." --
Qualitative SociologyTable of ContentsThe Streets of Caracas; Young People on the Streets of Caracas; Young People and Family Life; Guerra Contra el Hampa: Control Through Media, Law and the State; The Institutionalization of Violence; Stories in/on Style: Consumption, Language and Violence.
