{"product_id":"in-harms-way-the-dynamics-of-urban-violence-paperback","title":"In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJavier Auyero\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMaría Fernanda Berti\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA harrowing look at violence among Argentina's urban poor\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eArquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides--often involving young people--continue to skyrocket, and in the emergency room there, victims of shootings or knifings are an all-too-common sight. \u003ci\u003eIn Harm's Way\u003c\/i\u003e takes a harrowing look at daily life in Arquitecto Tucci, examining the sources, uses, and forms of interpersonal violence among the urban poor at the very margins of Argentine society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on more than two years of immersive fieldwork, sociologist Javier Auyero and María Berti, an elementary school teacher in the neighborhood, provide a powerful and disarmingly intimate account of what it is like to live under the constant threat of violence. They argue that being physically aggressive becomes a habitual way of acting in poor and marginalized communities, and that violence is routine and carries across various domains of public and private life. Auyero and Berti trace how different types of violence--be it criminal, drug related, sexual, or domestic--overlap, intersect, and blur together. They show how the state is complicit in the production of harm, and describe the routines and relationships that residents, particularly children, establish to cope with and respond to the constant risk that besieges them and their loved ones. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProvocative, eye-opening, and extraordinarily moving, \u003ci\u003eIn Harm's Way\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to become a classic work on violence at the urban margins.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn Harm's Way\u003c\/i\u003e is a jarringly powerful ethnographic study of how pervasive violence penetrated and remade the social fabric of an impoverished urban community. Javier Auyero and María Fernanda Berti spent years observing intimate yet frequently brutal interactions in the streets, schools, hospitals, and homes of one Buenos Aires neighborhood, but their account of the surprising ways that conflict binds people together has universal significance.\"\u003cb\u003e--Eric Klinenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eHeat Wave\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGoing Solo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This remarkable book offers a vivid ethnographic glimpse of daily life in a sprawling Argentine slum as seen through the eyes of its residents. \u003ci\u003eIn Harm's Way\u003c\/i\u003e explores the links between urban violence and the larger dynamics of Argentina's changing society, combining gripping description with powerful analysis. Auyero and Berti offer important new insights into contemporary life on the periphery.\"\u003cb\u003e--Gay W. Seidman, author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights, and Transnational Activism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a terrific book. Drawing on remarkably difficult and creative long-term and cross-generational ethnography in an extremely distressed marginal neighborhood, \u003ci\u003eIn Harm's Way\u003c\/i\u003e represents an innovative, well-theorized approach to urban violence in the contemporary era.\"\u003cb\u003e--Philippe Bourgois, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eIn Harm's Way\u003c\/i\u003e provides a new, refreshing--and disturbing--glimpse into the face of human pain and suffering in ultra-marginal locations. This powerful and sobering book stands in line with the best and most popular ethnographies on urban violence.\"\u003cb\u003e--Randol Contreras, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJavier Auyero\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of Latin American sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. \u003cb\u003eMaría Fernanda Berti\u003c\/b\u003e is an elementary school teacher in Buenos Aires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 02, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42132322975879,"sku":"9780691173030","price":43.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/1cc8b696002fa05df9a25c098d619121.webp?v=1732625544","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/in-harms-way-the-dynamics-of-urban-violence-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}