ISBN:
978-94-6372-752-5
,
94-6372-752-3
Language:
English
Pages:
127 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Kriminalität Massenkommunikation
;
Italien
;
Japan
;
Russland
;
Brasilien
;
Ghana
;
Jamaika
;
USA
;
Kunst
;
Kultursoziologie
;
Anthropologie, soziale
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
In contexts of insecurity and inequality across the world, criminal groups have developed into powerful, state-like organizations. Marginalized citizens in search of protection and support may look to criminal leaders, gangs and mafias rather than to politicians and state agencies. Providing residents with forms of social welfare, security and dispute resolution, these criminal organizations have taken on the functions and symbols of the state.00Criminals' positions of power are not only rooted in their social provisioning role, or in fear and force. 'Most Wanted' shows the role of popular culture in producing the socio-political authority of bosses, gangs and cartels. It illustrates this through discussions of Italian, Japanese and Russian mafias, and of criminal groups in Brazil, Ghana, Jamaica, and the United States. The essays collected here analyze different forms of visual, material and performative culture, including street art, film, video games, dance parties, popular music and various everyday objects. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Criminal Authority and the Politics of Aesthetics / Martijn Oosterbaan and Rivke Jaffe -- 2. Brave Noir World / Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff -- Most Wanted: Saints &Spirits. The "Holy Death". Protective tattoos and territorial tags: photos of criminalized men in Guatemala. Baron Kriminel: A "Kriminel" spirit -- 3. Aesthetic Disruption / Jason Pine -- 4. Iconization of Donmanship and Popular Culture as Site of Struggle / Tracian Meikle -- 5. Power and Parties: The Aesthetic Regime of Funk Proibidão / Sterre Gilsing -- Most Wanted: Iconized Gangs. Social bandits. Gangsters in politics. Servants of the town. A second skin. A "gender fluid" don -- 6. Authority and the Aesthetic Power of "Mafia Raj" in North India / Lucia Michelutti -- 7. Convivial Occasions: Mafia Cultural Production and the Mafia-State Intreccio / Peter Schneider and Jane Schneider -- 8. The Life of Death and Pleasure in the Haitian Baz / Chelsey L. Kivland -- Most Wanted: Worldwide Fascination. "Playing" gangster. "Gangster" hashtags -- 9. Online Scamming and Popular Culture in an Accra Zongo / Aernout Alkemade -- 10. Sagacité: On Celebrity and Criminality in Cote d'Ivoire, 1987-2017 / Sasha Newell -- 11. Curating the Popular Culture of Illegality / Roberto Luis Martins
Note:
Buch zur Ausstellung Most Wanted, 1, März 2020, Museum Volkenkunde Leiden
