Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras - Couverture souple

Carter, Jon Horne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 147732416X ISBN 13 : 9781477324165

Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2022

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jon Horne Carter is an associate professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Texas Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 147732416X
• ISBN 13: 9781477324165
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
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• Personne responsable: non disponible