The gang and beyond : interpreting violent street worlds / by Simon Hallsworth
- Author:
- Hallsworth, Simon
- Published:
- Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 215 pages ; 23 cm
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Welcome to gangland UK -- My goodness, how things have changed -- Themes -- So what is this all about? -- pt. One Gangland Claims and Gangland Realities -- 1.Gangs, Weapons and Violence -- Kingpins in the illegal drugs trade? -- Gangs and violence -- Weapon dogs and the gang -- Gangs and sexual violence -- Urban disorder -- Conclusion -- 2.The Fists and the Fury: My Life in a Sea of Gangs -- In the beginning -- The joys of adolescence -- Get pissed, destroy -- Into the eighties -- Conclusion -- pt. Two On Gang Talk and Gang-Talkers -- 3.Deciphering Gang Talk -- Defining gang talk -- Reading gang talk as a language game -- The seduction of gang talk -- Unforeseen consequences -- Conclusion -- 4.Moral Panic and Industry -- Emergence -- From reality to gang-talking fantasy: reflections on the media inventory -- The journey back: reshaping reality in the image of gang fantasies -- The industrial logic of `gang' production -- Conclusion -- pt. Three Getting Real about Violence -- 5.Arborealism and Rhizomatics: A Treatise -- The sedentary and the nomadic -- Arborealism -- Rhizomatics -- Back to the street -- Reading the street as rhizome -- Rhizomatic organisation -- Conclusion -- 6.Back to the Street -- Beyond the gang -- Street imperatives -- Instability, trauma and street life -- Conclusion -- 7.Continuities and Discontinuities in Urban Violence -- Street violence in the postwar period -- Continuities -- Discontinuities: on neoliberalism and its consequences -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- How to have a gang problem -- Koyaanisqutsi.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781137358080 (hbk.)
1137358084 (hbk.)
9781137358097 (pbk.)
1137358092 (pbk.) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-208) and index.
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