ISBN:
9781780324593
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9781780324609
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9781780324586
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (XII, 195 Seiten)
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Paralleltitel:
Print version Koonings, Kees Violence and Resilience in Latin American Cities
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Violence and resilience in Latin American cities
DDC:
303.6098
Schlagwort(e):
Resilience (Personality trait)
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Stadt
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Verstädterung
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Gewalttätigkeit
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Widerstand
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Politische Bewegung
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Soziale Bewegung
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Maßnahme
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Politik
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Deeskalation
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Konflikt
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Electronic books
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Resilience (Personality trait)
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Lateinamerika
Kurzfassung:
Featuring original fieldwork across a broad array of case studies, this cutting edge volume focuses on questions not only of crime and insecurity, but also of Latin American cities' ability to creatively and productively respond to these problems.
Kurzfassung:
Front Cover -- About the Editors -- Series Titles -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures, Tables and Box -- About the Contributors -- Abbreviations -- 1 | Urban fragility and resilience in Latin America: conceptual approaches and contemporary patterns -- Starting point: the basic contours of urban violence in Latin America and the Caribbean -- General contemporary trends in Latin America -- Persistent sources of urban fragility -- Urban resilience -- The city cases: rationale and overall findings -- Conclusion -- 2 | Exclusion, violence and resilience in five Latin American megacities: a comparison of Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo -- Introduction -- Poverty, inequality and violence: trends in five megacities since 1990 -- Urban armed actors and the dynamics of violence -- Urban resilience -- 3 | Caracas: from heaven's branch to urban hell -- Introduction -- Caracas in modernising and urbanising Venezuela -- Violence and institutional crises in Caracas -- The Bolivarian revolution -- Caracas' fragilities: violence in times of prosperity -- Institutional destruction and the failure of citizen security responses -- Defensive resilience -- Conclusion -- 4 | Bogotá: countering violence with urban government -- Introduction: crime in Latin America -- Crime in Bogotá: changes over time -- The national context -- From 2008: a new crime surge or a mere blip? -- Conclusion -- 5 | San Salvador: violence and resilience in gangland - coping with the code of the street -- Introduction -- Gangs and a gang truce in El Salvador -- Gang control in popular neighbourhoods -- Restricted movement and sociability -- Insecurity, gang truce and ordinary youth -- Conclusion: resilience in gangland -- 6 | San José: urban expansion, violence and resilience -- Introduction.
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