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4259772Gothic Sovereigntyhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/gothic-sovereignty-9781477324189/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3870181/f8a81ccd-27bf-417d-936b-5d06a7729a7f.jpg?v=638386000094870000569632MXNUniversity of Texas PressInStock/Ebooks/<p>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 Hondurass current crises.</p><p>Carter begins with the story of a thirteen-year-old gang member accused in the murder of an undercover DEA agent, asking how the nations 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 underworldfrom Cold War counterinsurgency to the War on Drugs to the near-impunity of white-collar crimeas 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. <em>Gothic Sovereignty</em> 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.</p>...4195860Gothic Sovereignty569632https://www.gandhi.com.mx/gothic-sovereignty-9781477324189/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3870181/f8a81ccd-27bf-417d-936b-5d06a7729a7f.jpg?v=638386000094870000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20229781477324189_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_<p>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 Hondurass current crises.</p><p>Carter begins with the story of a thirteen-year-old gang member accused in the murder of an undercover DEA agent, asking how the nations 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 underworldfrom Cold War counterinsurgency to the War on Drugs to the near-impunity of white-collar crimeas 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. <em>Gothic Sovereignty</em> 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.</p>(*_*)9781477324189_<p>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 Hondurass current crises.</p><p>Carter begins with the story of a thirteen-year-old gang member accused in the murder of an undercover DEA agent, asking how the nations 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 underworldfrom Cold War counterinsurgency to the War on Drugs to the near-impunity of white-collar crimeas 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. <em>Gothic Sovereignty</em> 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.</p>...9781477324189_University of Texas Presslibro_electonico_a35ded2f-4ae8-3aed-9774-497002c12111_9781477324189;9781477324189_9781477324189Jon HorneInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/utexaspress-epub-6e058d0c-db2d-474b-9067-6333047395dc.epub2022-02-01T00:00:00+00:00University of Texas Press