Ruedo Means Respect and Power: Gangs and Violence in Bogota Youth gangs break the rules of collective life: they distance themselves from school, their family and the workplace as they get involved in drug activities, robbery and violence. Their distinctive characteristic is violent transgression. They split up the traditional categorization of violence. Gangs are not defined by economic gains but they are delinquent groups; they do not interfere directly in politics but they dominate the local public sphere; they do not have a strong discourse but they denounce social exclusion and the growing urban poverty. Thus, gangs are a kind of cultural violence: they build an identity in everyday life. In this search for respect and social recogniti...
This article analyzes the processes of socialization, taking up the theory of Social Construction of...
Objective. To describe and understand violence meaning for children with street living experience in...
Gangs, as such, are a contemporary phenomenon, with only a few years of history, appearing virulentl...
As of the 1960s, a new type of grouping emerged among young people living in the poorer neighborhood...
Street gangs -especially ‘Mara Salvatrucha’ [MS] and 18th Street Gang [18]- and student gangs are fe...
Gangs have been proliferating all over the world. Their way of inhabiting the locality, by exercisin...
Drawing upon forty life-history interviews with gang members in Medellín, Colombia, this paper argue...
The article analyzes the relationship between the gangs, the daily violence, and the marginalization...
En este artículo se muestra cómo un grupo de jóvenes de la ciudad de Mérida organizan una pandilla y...
Objetivo. Describir y comprender el significado de la violencia desde la mirada de niño/as con exper...
In these pages we will discuss how violence is used comparing two ethnographic research, one between...
The acts of armed violence can pour a new sense over the spaces where a community build its social i...
Realizar un estudio de las principales características de la banda juvenil llamada “microbotas”, que...
Abstract The present article analyzes the tension between internal hospitality and outside hostility...
The barrio gangs in the United States, formed by Latin-American youngsters, have become an indelible...
This article analyzes the processes of socialization, taking up the theory of Social Construction of...
Objective. To describe and understand violence meaning for children with street living experience in...
Gangs, as such, are a contemporary phenomenon, with only a few years of history, appearing virulentl...
As of the 1960s, a new type of grouping emerged among young people living in the poorer neighborhood...
Street gangs -especially ‘Mara Salvatrucha’ [MS] and 18th Street Gang [18]- and student gangs are fe...
Gangs have been proliferating all over the world. Their way of inhabiting the locality, by exercisin...
Drawing upon forty life-history interviews with gang members in Medellín, Colombia, this paper argue...
The article analyzes the relationship between the gangs, the daily violence, and the marginalization...
En este artículo se muestra cómo un grupo de jóvenes de la ciudad de Mérida organizan una pandilla y...
Objetivo. Describir y comprender el significado de la violencia desde la mirada de niño/as con exper...
In these pages we will discuss how violence is used comparing two ethnographic research, one between...
The acts of armed violence can pour a new sense over the spaces where a community build its social i...
Realizar un estudio de las principales características de la banda juvenil llamada “microbotas”, que...
Abstract The present article analyzes the tension between internal hospitality and outside hostility...
The barrio gangs in the United States, formed by Latin-American youngsters, have become an indelible...
This article analyzes the processes of socialization, taking up the theory of Social Construction of...
Objective. To describe and understand violence meaning for children with street living experience in...
Gangs, as such, are a contemporary phenomenon, with only a few years of history, appearing virulentl...