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The Street Is My Home - Youth and Violence in Caracas (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
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The Street Is My Home - Youth and Violence in Caracas (Paperback, 1 New Ed)
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What does it mean to be a child or an adolescent growing up on the
streets or in a state institution? How do children define their
everyday lives in the midst of global processes? This ethnographic
study situates childhood and adolescence as social forms within the
changing family and political structures of the complex urban world
of Caracas, Venezuela. The presence of youngsters on the streets of
Caracas embodies social contradictions at the national level, and
this book discusses how these contradictions are played out in an
oil-producing nation afflicted with hyperinflation, generalized
corruption, the deterioration of public services, increasing
poverty, and violence. Vivid life stories told by street children
themselves portray their relations with family and friends, as well
as with people they encounter: police officers, journalists, social
workers, and passersby at their local hangouts. The book also
describes and analyzes the justice system and institutions for
minors, illustrating the constant failures to respond to, contain,
or lessen youth violence. Many young people come from shantytowns
to the streets of Caracas for a better life, and the author shows
how they seek status and power through style, pursuing commodities
of the global consumer market, from Nike shoes to cellular phones.
Drawing on her ethnographic data and contemporary theories of
power, control, and style, the author critiques the inequalities of
the Venezuelan class structure and the oil boom's failure to
provide adequate social services for a great majority of the
population.
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