Dwellers of Memory Youth and Violence in Medellin, Colombia |
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| Author:
| Riano-Alcala, Pilar |
| Series title: | Memory and Narrative Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7658-0314-6 |
| Publication Date: | May 2006 |
| Publisher: | Transaction Publishers
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $74.80 |
Book Description:
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An ethnographic study of how urban youth in Colombia came to be at the intersection of multiple forms of political and drug-related violence in a country undergoing forty years of internal armed conflict. It examines the ways in which youth in the city of Medellin reconfigure their lives and cultural worlds in the face of widespread violence.
An ethnographic study of how urban youth in Colombia came to be at the intersection of multiple forms of political and drug-related violence in a country undergoing forty years of internal armed conflict. It examines the ways in which youth in the city of Medellin reconfigure their lives and cultural worlds in the face of widespread violence.