Uses and Forms of Violence among the Urban Poor

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3394972
AutoresJ Auyero (0000-0001-5387-2812), Agustín Burbano De Lara, María Fernanda Berti
Año2014
Volumen46
Número3
Páginas443-469
Fecha de publicación2014-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x14000698
OpenAlexW2156682311
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas72

Based on 30 months of collaborative fieldwork in a poor neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this paper scrutinises the multiple uses of violence among residents and the concatenations between private and public forms of physical aggression. Much of the violence reported here resembles that which has been dissected by students of street violence in the United States - that is, it is the product of interpersonal retaliation and remains encapsulated in dyadic exchanges. However, by casting a wider net to include other forms of aggression (not only criminal but also sexual, domestic and intimate) that take place inside and outside the home, and that intensely shape the course of poor people's daily lives, the paper argues that diverse forms of violence among the urban poor (a) serve more than just retaliatory purposes, and (b) link with one another beyond dyadic relationships

Aggression · Criminology · Geography · Interpersonal violence · Neighbourhood (mathematics) · Poison control · Sexual violence · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology