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Patricia C. Márquez - The Street Is My Home: Youth and Violence in Caracas - 9780804745529 - V9780804745529
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The Street Is My Home: Youth and Violence in Caracas

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Description for The Street Is My Home: Youth and Violence in Caracas Paperback. What does it mean to be a child or an adolescent growing up on the streets or in a state institution? How do children define their everyday lives in the midst of global processes? This ethnographic study situates childhood and adolescence as social forms in the complex urban world of Caracas, Venezuela. Num Pages: 292 pages, illustrations, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KLSV; JFSP1; JFSP2; JHMC; JKSB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.

What does it mean to be a child or an adolescent growing up on the streets or in a state institution? How do children define their everyday lives in the midst of global processes? This ethnographic study situates childhood and adolescence as social forms within the changing family and political structures of the complex urban world of Caracas, Venezuela.

The presence of youngsters on the streets of Caracas embodies social contradictions at the national level, and this book discusses how these contradictions are played out in an oil-producing nation afflicted with hyperinflation, generalized corruption, the deterioration of public services, ... Read more

Many young people come from shantytowns to the streets of Caracas for a better life, and the author shows how they seek status and power through style, pursuing commodities of the global consumer market, from Nike shoes to cellular phones. Drawing on her ethnographic data and contemporary theories of power, control, and style, the author critiques the inequalities of the Venezuelan class structure and the oil boom’s failure to provide adequate social services for a great majority of the population.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
292
Condition
New
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804745529
SKU
V9780804745529
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Patricia C. Márquez
Patricia C. Márquez is Associate Professor in the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA), Caracas.

Reviews for The Street Is My Home: Youth and Violence in Caracas
"Centering on a series of dramatic life histories and interviews in which the street children provide stunningly insightful and poetically expressed analyses of their own situations, Márquez's book is compellingly written and excellently thought out, makes theoretical contributions, and portrays a fascinating situation with insights that will be useful to scholars in a variety of fields."—Linda-Anne Rebhun, Yale University "The ... Read more

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