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Hobsbawm in Trinidad: understanding contemporary modalities of urban violence
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Abstract Eric Hobsbawm's milestone work Bandits is attentive to the rural poor and situates social banditry within the world of peasant resistance, but his concepts are surprisingly adaptable to contemporary urban settings. Drawing on Hobsbawm's conceptualisation of social banditry and avengers, this article... mehr
Eric Hobsbawm's milestone work Bandits is attentive to the rural poor and situates social banditry within the world of peasant resistance, but his concepts are surprisingly adaptable to contemporary urban settings. Drawing on Hobsbawm's conceptualisation of social banditry and avengers, this article examines the perspective of gangs who perceive themselves as victims of inequality, poverty and capitalism; who serve as social actors and security providers for their communities; and who at the same time engage in cruelty and high levels of violence and terror. This qualitative study is based on fieldwork undertaken in Trinidad and Tobago. Findings show that Hobsbawm's figure of the avenger contributes to a better understanding of the contemporary modalities of urban violence and helps unpacking and characterise the ambiguity of the relationship between gangs and local communities.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bevölkerungsgruppe; Kriminalität; Trinidad und Tobago; Gewaltkriminalität; organisierte Kriminalität; Rollenverständnis; soziales Verhalten; Stadt; Feldforschung; qualitative Methode; Delinquenz; Akteur; qualitatives Interview; soziale Gerechtigkeit
Klassifikation
soziale Probleme
Sozialpsychologie
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Seitenangabe
S. 409-432
Zeitschriftentitel
Conflict, Security and Development, 18 (2018) 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2018.1511165
ISSN
1478-1174
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)