Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras by Carter, Jon Horne

Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras

Gang-related violence has forced thousands of Hondurans to flee their country, leaving behind everything as refugees and...
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Author: Jon Horne Carter
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Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras by Carter, Jon Horne

Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras

$114.58

Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras

$114.58
Author: Jon Horne Carter
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Gang-related violence has forced thousands of Hondurans to flee their country, leaving behind everything as refugees and undocumented migrants abroad. To uncover how this happened, Jon Carter looks back to the mid-2000s, when neighborhood gangs were scrambling to survive state violence and mass incarceration, locating there a critique of neoliberal globalization and state corruption that foreshadows Honduras's current crises.

Carter begins with the story of a thirteen-year-old gang member accused in the murder of an undercover DEA agent, asking how the nation's seductive criminal underworld has transformed the lives of young people. He then widens the lens to describe a history of imperialism and corruption that shaped this underworld--from Cold War counterinsurgency to the "War on Drugs" to the near-impunity of white-collar crime--as he follows local gangs who embrace new trades in the illicit economy. Carter describes the gangs' transformation from neighborhood groups to sprawling criminal societies, even in the National Penitentiary, where they have become political as much as criminal communities. Gothic Sovereignty reveals not only how the revolutionary potential of gangs was lost when they merged with powerful cartels but also how close analysis of criminal communities enables profound reflection on the economic, legal, and existential discontents of globalization in late liberal nation-states.



Author: Jon Horne Carter
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 02/01/2022
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781477324165

About the Author
Jon Horne Carter is an associate professor of anthropology at Appalachian State University.

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