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Mortal Doubt - Transnational Gangs and Social Order in Guatemala City (Paperback)
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Mortal Doubt - Transnational Gangs and Social Order in Guatemala City (Paperback)
Series: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century, 1
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The fear of violent crime dominates Guatemala City. In the midst of
unprecedented levels of postwar violence, Guatemalans struggle to
fathom the myriad forces that have made life in this city so deeply
insecure. Born out of histories of state terror, migration, and US
deportation, maras (transnational gangs) have become the face of
this new era of violence. They are brutal organizations engaged in
extortion, contract killings, and the drug trade, and yet they have
also become essential to the emergence of a certain kind of social
order. Drawing on years of fieldwork inside prisons, police
precincts, and gang-dominated neighborhoods, Anthony W. Fontes
demonstrates how gang violence has become indissoluble from
contemporary social imaginaries and how these gangs provide cover
for a host of other criminal actors. Ethnographically rich and
unflinchingly critical, Mortal Doubt illuminates the maras' role in
making and mooring collective terror in Guatemala City while
tracing the ties that bind this violence to those residing in far
safer environs.
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