Slipping the Line

The Assembled Geographies of Gang Territories
2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-39280-1
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 266 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Curran, Amelia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Invisibility, Materiality, and Gang Spaces.- Chapter 2 : The Gang Assemblage.- Chapter 3 : Gangs and Territory.- Chapter 4 : Resident Bodies and Gang Territory.- Chapter 5 : Policing the Box.- Chapter 6: Relational Ethics of Accountability

Über Autor(innen)

Amelia Curran,PhD, is an Instructor in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. She has published in Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Critical Sociology,