Geografías de violencia y exclusión: Pandillas encarceladas en Honduras
This research note looks at the territoriality of the Honduran gangs called maras. It contributes to the existing scholarship on territory, space, and gangs. Territoriality is understood as a geographic strategy of power that can influence, affect, and control social relations, persons, and objects...
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| Published in: | Latin American research review 2012-03, Vol.47 (2), p.167-179 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | This research note looks at the territoriality of the Honduran gangs called maras. It contributes to the existing scholarship on territory, space, and gangs. Territoriality is understood as a geographic strategy of power that can influence, affect, and control social relations, persons, and objects in a specific area. Focusing on the case of imprisoned gang members of the Eighteenth Street Gang, this research note shows that gang members develop territorial strategies that defy the existing territorial order of the jail, and moreover, that the gang's territorial strategies produce a social space known as the barrio. This barrio emerges as a total institution within another total institution, the prison. Territoriality of imprisoned gang members indicates the ability of gangs to react and develop responses to different situations, including the repressive security policies of the Honduran state. Furthermore, it is an indicator of the high levels of violence and exclusion of marginal youths. |
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| ISSN: | 0023-8791 1542-4278 1542-4278 |