Listening To Sicarios Sicario Masculinities Feeling Reckless And Respectful

Author : Arturo Chacón Castañón,Robert McKee Irwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030941191

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Listening to Sicarios: Sicario Masculinities: Feeling Reckless and Respectful by Arturo Chacón Castañón,Robert McKee Irwin Pdf

Listening to Sicarios presents new insights into the lives of paid assassins of Mexico's drug trafficking syndicates from the perspectives of the assassins themselves. Based on an extraordinary series of ethnographic interviews carried out in the wake of the record levels of narcoviolence experienced in Ciudad Juárez between 2008 and 2012, this study analyzes the ways in which these young men interpret their actions across four key thematic axes: border infrastructures, youth and responsibility, masculinity and sentiment, and ethics: good vs. evil. It argues that sicarios follow a career path within a criminal corporate infrastructure that is especially robust in Mexican border cities. It also explores how sicarios understand youthful innocence in relation to adult accountability in the realm of violence that is frequently meted out by young men on other young men. It then analyzes sicarios' expressions of feelings of power that may boost their sense of virility, as well as feelings of fear and regret that imply weakness. Finally, it examines how sicarios defend their personal integrity in the face of a public discourse that views their acts as savage.

Author : Arturo Chacón Castañón,Robert McKee Irwin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030941185

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Listening to Sicarios by Arturo Chacón Castañón,Robert McKee Irwin Pdf

Listening to Sicarios presents new insights into the lives of paid assassins of Mexico’s drug trafficking syndicates from the perspectives of the assassins themselves. Based on an extraordinary series of ethnographic interviews carried out in the wake of the record levels of narcoviolence experienced in Ciudad Juárez between 2008 and 2012, this study analyzes the ways in which these young men interpret their actions across four key thematic axes: border infrastructures, youth and responsibility, masculinity and sentiment, and ethics: good vs. evil. It argues that sicarios follow a career path within a criminal corporate infrastructure that is especially robust in Mexican border cities. It also explores how sicarios understand youthful innocence in relation to adult accountability in the realm of violence that is frequently meted out by young men on other young men. It then analyzes sicarios’ expressions of feelings of power that may boost their sense of virility, as well as feelings of fear and regret that imply weakness. Finally, it examines how sicarios defend their personal integrity in the face of a public discourse that views their acts as savage.

Author : Anthony W. Fontes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520969599

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Mortal Doubt by Anthony W. Fontes Pdf

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.

Author : Russell M. Hillier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319469577

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Morality in Cormac McCarthy's Fiction by Russell M. Hillier Pdf

This book argues that McCarthy’s works convey a profound moral vision, and use intertextuality, moral philosophy, and questions of genre to advance that vision. It focuses upon the ways in which McCarthy’s fiction is in ceaseless conversation with literary and philosophical tradition, examining McCarthy’s investment in influential thinkers from Marcus Aurelius to Hannah Arendt, and poets, playwrights, and novelists from Dante and Shakespeare to Fyodor Dostoevsky and Antonio Machado. The book shows how McCarthy’s fiction grapples with abiding moral and metaphysical issues: the nature and problem of evil; the idea of God or the transcendent; the credibility of heroism in the modern age; the question of moral choice and action; the possibility of faith, hope, love, and goodness; the meaning and limits of civilization; and the definition of what it is to be human. This study will appeal alike to readers, teachers, and scholars of Cormac McCarthy.

Author : Marilyn Yaquinto
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030248055

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Policing the World on Screen by Marilyn Yaquinto Pdf

This book analyzes Hollywood storytelling that features an American crimefighter—whether cop, detective, or agent—who must safeguard society and the nation by any means necessary. That often means going “rogue” and breaking the rules, even deploying ugly violence, but excused as self-defense or to serve the greater good. This ends-justifies-means approach dates back to gunfighters taming the western frontier to urban cowboy cops battling urban savagery—first personified by “Dirty” Harry Callahan—and later dispatched in global interventions to vanquish threats to national security. America as the world’s “policeman often means controlling the Other at home and abroad, which also extends American hegemony from the Cold War through the War on Terror. This book also examines pioneering portrayals by males of color and female crimefighters to embody such a social or national defender, which are frustrated by their existence as threats the white knight exists to defeat.

Author : Folger Shakespeare Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015033945034

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The Folger Library by Folger Shakespeare Library Pdf

Author : Wulf D. Hund,Charles W. Mills,Silvia Sebastiani
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Racism
ISBN : 9783643907165

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Simianization by Wulf D. Hund,Charles W. Mills,Silvia Sebastiani Pdf

Contents: Charles W. Mills: Bestial Inferiority. Locating Simianization within Racism - Wulf D. Hund: Racist King Kong Fantasies. From Shakespeare's Monster to Stalin's Ape-Man - David Livingstone Smith, Ioana Panaitiu: Aping the Human Essence. Simianization as Dehumanization - Silvia Sebastiani: Challenging Boundaries. Apes and Savages in Enlightenment - Stefanie Affeldt: Exterminating the Brute. Sexism and Racism in "King Kong" - Susan C. Townsend: The Yellow Monkey. Simianizing the Japanese - Steve Garner: The Simianization of the Irish. Racial Apeing and its Contexts - Kimberly Barsamian Kahn, Phillip Atiba Goff, Jean M. McMahon: Intersections of Prejudice and Dehumanization. Charting a Research Trajectory (Series:?Racism Analysis - Series B: Yearbooks, Vol. 6) [Subject: Sociology, Race Studies]

Author : Peter Josyph
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810877082

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Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy by Peter Josyph Pdf

Regarded by many as one of America's finest-living writers, Cormac McCarthy has produced some of the most compelling novels of the last 40 years. Through the increasing number of cinematic adaptations of his work, including the Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men, and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road, McCarthy is entering the mainstream of cultural consciousness, both in the United States and abroad. In Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy, Peter Josyph considers, at length, the author's two masterworks Blood Meridian and Suttree, as well as the novel and film of All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's play The Stonemason, and his film The Gardener's Son. The book also includes extended conversations with critic Harold Bloom about Blood Meridian; novelist and poet Robert Morgan about The Gardener's Son; critic Rick Wallach about Blood Meridian; and Oscar-winning screenwriter Ted Tally about his film adaptation of All the Pretty Horses. Drawing on multiple resources of an unconventional nature, this book examines McCarthy's work from original and sometimes provocative perspectives. Proposing a new notion of criticism, Adventures in Reading Cormac McCarthy will become a useful tool for critics, students, and general readers about one of the great literary talents of the day.

Author : Jon Horne Carter
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477324158

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Gothic Sovereignty by Jon Horne Carter Pdf

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 Honduras’s current crises. Carter begins with the story of a thirteen-year-old gang member accused in the murder of an undercover DEA agent, asking how the nation’s 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 underworld—from Cold War counterinsurgency to the “War on Drugs” to the near-impunity of white-collar crime—as 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. Gothic Sovereignty 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.

Author : Susan Migden Socolow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521196659

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The Women of Colonial Latin America by Susan Migden Socolow Pdf

A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

Author : Kumkum Sangari
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843310518

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Politics of the Possible by Kumkum Sangari Pdf

A refreshing and wide-ranging approach to the study of South Asian politics.

Author : Peter Josyph
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292744295

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Cormac McCarthy's House by Peter Josyph Pdf

Novelist Cormac McCarthy’s brilliant and challenging work demands deep engagement from his readers. In Cormac McCarthy’s House, author, painter, photographer, and actor-director Peter Josyph draws on a wide range of experience to pose provocative, unexpected questions about McCarthy’s work, how it is achieved, and how it is interpreted. As a visual artist, Josyph wrestles with the challenge of rendering McCarthy’s former home in El Paso as a symbol of a great writer’s workshop. As an actor and filmmaker, he analyzes the high art of Tommy Lee Jones in The Sunset Limited and No Country for Old Men. Invoking the recent suicide of a troubled friend, he grapples with the issue of “our brother’s keeper” in The Crossing and The Sunset Limited. But for Josyph, reading the finest prose-poet of our day is a project into which he invites many voices, and his investigations include a talk with Mark Morrow about photographing McCarthy while he was writing Blood Meridian; an in-depth conversation with director Tom Cornford on the challenges of staging The Sunset Limited and The Stonemason; a walk through the streets, waterfronts, and hidden haunts of Suttree with McCarthy scholar and Knoxville resident Wesley Morgan; insights from the cast of The Gardener’s Son about a controversial scene in that film; actress Miriam Colon’s perspective on portraying the Dueña Alfonsa opposite Matt Damon in All the Pretty Horses; and a harsh critique of Josyph’s views on The Crossing by McCarthy scholar Marty Priola, which leads to a sometimes heated debate. Illustrated with thirty-one photographs, Josyph’s unconventional journeys into the genius of Cormac McCarthy form a new, highly personal way of appreciating literary greatness.

Author : Deidre Lynch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226498201

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The Economy of Character by Deidre Lynch Pdf

At the start of the 18th century, literary "characters" referred as much to letters and typefaces as it did to persons in books. However, this text shows how, by the 19th century, readers used transactions with characters to accommodate themselves to newly-commercialized social relations.

Author : Kathleen Daly
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0300068662

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Gender, Crime, and Punishment by Kathleen Daly Pdf

Are men and women who are prosecuted for similar crimes punished differently? If women are sentenced more leniently, does it vary with race and class? This work explores these issues and others by focusing on a variety of processed court cases such as homicide, robbery and drug offences.

Author : H. Herlinghaus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230617933

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Violence without Guilt by H. Herlinghaus Pdf

This is an illuminating discussion of guilt, fear, violence and aesthetics from a global perspective. Herlinghaus evaluates new Latin American novels, films and music through the lens of some of Walter Benjamin's controversial writings on violence and religion.