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Autore: | Moser Caroline O. N |
Titolo: | Encounters with violence in Latin America : urban poor perceptions from Colombia and Guatemala / / Caroline O.N. Moser and Cathy McIlwaine |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2004 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
Disciplina: | 303.6/097281 |
Soggetto topico: | Urban violence - Colombia |
Urban violence - Guatemala | |
Altri autori: | McIlwaineCathy <1965-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-261) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgments; Urban violence as a contested domain; Toward a policy-relevant positioning of violence: the role of participatory research methodologies; The multiple complexity of daily violence in urban Colombian and Guatemalan communities; Community perceptions of the structural factors underlying political and economic violence; The family as a violent institution and the primary site of social violence; Substance abuse-linked violence relating to drug and alcohol consumption; Organized violence at the community level |
Violence, social institutions and social capital in communitiesAvoiding or confronting violence? Community perceptions of strategies and solutions; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index; | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Considers the various types of political, social and economic violence that afflict communities and measures the costs and consequences of violence giving a voice to those whose daily lives are dominated by widespread aggression. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Encounters with violence in Latin America |
ISBN: | 1-134-57564-5 |
1-134-57565-3 | |
0-415-25864-2 | |
1-280-05711-4 | |
0-203-64635-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910814177203321 |
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