| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Invisibility, Materiality, and Gang Spaces -- Gang Territories: Regional, Criminal, Symbolic spaces -- Gang Territories as Material Spaces -- Terminology and its Complexities -- Winnipeg Gang Territories -- The North End/North Side Gang Territory -- The West End/West Side Gang Territory -- West Broadway/B Side Gang Territory -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: The Gang Assemblage -- Space in Gang Literature -- Chicago School's Ecological Theory -- Social Disorganization Theory -- Group Processes -- Structural Analysis |
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Globalization -- The Materiality of Gang Space -- Getting There -- Leaving Room for That Which Cannot be Found -- Getting In -- The Gang Assemblage -- References -- Chapter 3: Gangs and Territory -- City Spaces -- Dial-a-Dealing -- Crack Shacks -- Slipping the Line -- Home Territory: Regional Boundaries -- Home Territory: Hybrid Boundaries -- Boundaries Between Visible and Invisible Space -- Gang Colours and Tattoos -- Clothing and Colour as Material Practices of Territory -- Tattoos as Embodied Maps -- Territory and the Gang Assemblage -- References |
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Chapter 4: Resident Bodies and Gang Territory -- Witnessing: Mapping Region -- Race as a Material Practice -- Affective Space -- Gang Space as Conditions and Mobilities of the Body -- How, When, and Where Residents Travel -- Dress -- Gang Territories as Affective Spaces -- The Body, Affect, Mobility -- References -- Chapter 5: Policing the Box -- How Gang Territories Come to Matter -- Policing the Box -- Spatialization of the Racialized Body -- References -- Chapter 6: Relational Ethics of Accountability -- Beyond Criminality and Criminal Intervention -- References -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This book brings a new spatial analysis to gang territories through the concept of the gang assemblage- the variety of actors, contexts, and practices that create and maintain these spaces. This conceptualization helps overcome the tendency of gang literature to succumb to the gang territorial trap, the tendency to assume gang territories are fixed and static containers of gang life. Drawing on multi-sited qualitative fieldwork in central Canada, interviews with gang and non-gang-affiliated residents, police, and administrators show gang territories being made material through a wide variety of daily embodied practices. Recognizing the role of multiple actors encourages a relational ethics of accountability between bodies, practices, and place that challenges the often-naturalized connections between race, space, and crime. Understanding gang space as enacted through embodied material practices provides an alternative way to think through, trace, and disrupt these associations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Gangs -- Social aspects
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Spatial behavior -- Social aspects
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Gangs -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031392788 |
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3031392787 |
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