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Slipping the Line The Assembled Geographies of Gang Territories
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Slipping the Line [electronic resource] : The Assembled Geographies of Gang Territories / by Amelia Curran.
ISBN
9783031392788
Edition
1st ed. 2023.
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource (VII, 190 p.)
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Summary
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.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 19, 2023
Contents
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.
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