| Description |
1 online resource (x, 265 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Jorge Balán -- Cities written by violence : an introducton / Susana Rotker -- The city : between fear and the media / Jesús Martín-Barbero -- Urban violence in Latin America and the Caribbean : dimensions, explanations, actions / Alberto Concha-Eastman -- Colombia : toward an institutional collapse? / Eduardo Pizarro Leongómez -- Terror and violence in Mexican political culture at the end of the twentieth century / Raquel Sosa Elízaga -- Democracy, citizenship, and violence in Venezuela / Ana María Sanjuán |
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Youth crime in São Paulo : myths, images, and facts / Sérgio Adorno -- A small mistake (chronicle) / José Roberto Duque -- Ciudad Bolívar : brush strokes against death (chronicle) / José Navia --- The drive-by victim (chronicle) / Alberto Salcedo Ramos -- State violence in Brazil : the professional morality of torturers / Martha K. Huggins -- The impact of exposure to violence in São Paulo : accepting violence or continuing horror? -- Nancy Cárdia -- The social construction of fear : urban narratives and practices / Rossana Reguillo |
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Imaginaries and narratives of prison violence / Yolanda Salas -- We are the others / Susana Rotker -- Citizenship and urban violence : nightmares in the open air / Carlos Monsiváis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Violence -- Latin America -- Congresses
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Urban policy -- Latin America -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society.
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Urban policy
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Violence
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Sociology & Social History.
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Social Sciences.
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Social Conditions.
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Latin America
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rotker, Susana, 1954-
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Goldman, Katherine
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| LC no. |
2001031781 |
| ISBN |
0813532485 |
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9780813532486 |
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0813555701 |
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9780813555706 |
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