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Gothic Sovereignty

- Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras
Af: Jon Horne Carter Engelsk Paperback

Gothic Sovereignty

- Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras
Af: Jon Horne Carter Engelsk Paperback
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Gang-related violence has forced thousands of Hondurans to flee their country, leaving behind everything as refugees and undocumented migrants abroad. To uncover how this happened, Jon Carter looks back to the mid-2000s, when neighborhood gangs were scrambling to survive state violence and mass incarceration, locating there a critique of neoliberal globalization and state corruption that foreshadows Honduras’s current crises.

Carter begins with the story of a thirteen-year-old gang member accused in the murder of an undercover DEA agent, asking how the nation’s seductive criminal underworld has transformed the lives of young people. He then widens the lens to describe a history of imperialism and corruption that shaped this underworld—from Cold War counterinsurgency to the “War on Drugs” to the near-impunity of white-collar crime—as he follows local gangs who embrace new trades in the illicit economy. Carter describes the gangs’ transformation from neighborhood groups to sprawling criminal societies, even in the National Penitentiary, where they have become political as much as criminal communities. Gothic Sovereignty reveals not only how the revolutionary potential of gangs was lost when they merged with powerful cartels but also how close analysis of criminal communities enables profound reflection on the economic, legal, and existential discontents of globalization in late liberal nation-states.

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Gang-related violence has forced thousands of Hondurans to flee their country, leaving behind everything as refugees and undocumented migrants abroad. To uncover how this happened, Jon Carter looks back to the mid-2000s, when neighborhood gangs were scrambling to survive state violence and mass incarceration, locating there a critique of neoliberal globalization and state corruption that foreshadows Honduras’s current crises.

Carter begins with the story of a thirteen-year-old gang member accused in the murder of an undercover DEA agent, asking how the nation’s seductive criminal underworld has transformed the lives of young people. He then widens the lens to describe a history of imperialism and corruption that shaped this underworld—from Cold War counterinsurgency to the “War on Drugs” to the near-impunity of white-collar crime—as he follows local gangs who embrace new trades in the illicit economy. Carter describes the gangs’ transformation from neighborhood groups to sprawling criminal societies, even in the National Penitentiary, where they have become political as much as criminal communities. Gothic Sovereignty reveals not only how the revolutionary potential of gangs was lost when they merged with powerful cartels but also how close analysis of criminal communities enables profound reflection on the economic, legal, and existential discontents of globalization in late liberal nation-states.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 368
ISBN-13: 9781477324165
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 147732416X
Kategori: Honduras
Udg. Dato: 1 feb 2022
Længde: 32mm
Bredde: 230mm
Højde: 153mm
Forlag: University of Texas Press
Oplagsdato: 1 feb 2022
Forfatter(e): Jon Horne Carter
Forfatter(e) Jon Horne Carter

Kategori Honduras

ISBN-13 9781477324165

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 368

Udgave

Længde 32mm

Bredde 230mm

Højde 153mm

Udg. Dato 1 feb 2022

Oplagsdato 1 feb 2022

Forlag University of Texas Press

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