Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio 1st Edition Robert Vargas 019024593X 9780190245931

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• ISBN 10: 019024593X
• ISBN 13: 9780190245931
• Author: Robert Vargas

In 2009, Chicago spent millions of dollars to create programs to prevent gang violence in some of its most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Yet in spite of the programs, violence has grown worse in some of the very neighborhoods that the violence prevention programs were intented to help. While public officials and social scientists often attribute the violence – and the failure of the programs – to a lack of community in poor neighborhoods, closer study reveals another source of community division: local politics.Through an ethnographic case study of Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood, Wounded City dispells the popular belief that a lack of community is the primary source of violence, arguing that competition for political power and state resources often undermine efforts to reduce gang violence.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction

2. Battles for Political Turf in Little Village

3. Burbs and Violent Blocks

4. Transforming Violent Streets on the Westside

5. Silence and the Art of Arson

6. Locking Up Social Order

7. Conclusion: Toward a Relational Understanding of Urban Violence

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