{"product_id":"from-south-central-to-southside-gang-transnationalism-masculinity-and-disorganized-violence-in-belize-city-paperback-softback-9781439923344","title":"From South Central to Southside; Gang Transnationalism, Masculinity, and Disorganized Violence in Belize City (Paperback \/ softback) 9781439923344","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFrom South Central to Southside\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGang Transnationalism, Masculinity, and Disorganized Violence in Belize City\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAdam Baird (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781439923344\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e217 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.313 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eFrom South Central to Southside\u003ci\u003e is a hugely important book offering a fine-grained and engagingly written study of the Bloods and Crips in Belize, a country generally overlooked by gang studies. In it, Adam Baird does something few gang researchers manage to do-he weaves together a proper political economy of violence that links structural factors like the enduring legacies of colonialism and slavery, transnational migration, and oligarchic politics with the everyday experience of poverty, gendered brutality, and police repression. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand gang dynamics in Belize andeverywhere.”\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003cb\u003eDennis Rodgers\u003c\/b\u003e, Research Professor in Anthropology and Sociology and Director of the European Research Council’s GANGS project at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland \u003ci\u003e“Baird’s examination of the complex web of factors shaping gang culture in Belize is groundbreaking. By integrating ethnographic research with a deep dive into colonial history, Baird provides us with a rich understanding of the foundations for Belizean gangs, as well as the spikes of violence that often surround them. But what sets his analysis apart is his exploration of ‘transnational masculinity’ and its widespread implications for both Belize and the region writ large. \u003c\/i\u003eFrom South Central to Southside\u003ci\u003e helps us better place gangs in the larger context of the corrosive, hypermasculine behavior that accompanies gang activity, making it required reading for anyone trying to tackle this difficult problem.”\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003cb\u003eSteven Dudley\u003c\/b\u003e, cofounder of InSight Crime, and author of \u003ci\u003eMS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"Baird’s heartfelt, long-term, applied ethnography demonstrates how gangs of young men shape hybridized chaos in contemporary urban Belize. Drawing on voices from the streets and comparative experiences with gangs across Latin America, Baird explores chronic vulnerability among men in Belize City.... [He] argues that better outcomes will demand real and deep sociocultural change across the nation.... [T]he argument is impassioned and empathetic.... Summing Up: Recommended.\"\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChoice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"The work is...extremely well structured, researched, and written. It is derived from [Baird's] field research trips in Belize.\"\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eC\/O Futures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003ci\u003e\"An illuminating study about gangs and systemic inequality.\"\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eFrom South Central to Southside\u003ci\u003e engages with the experiences of marginalized young men typically viewed as perpetrators, rather than as victims.... Readers will discover that Baird’s findings and arguments are consistent with studies of gangs and urban violence elsewhere in the Americas. The fact that relevant research evidence exists but tends to be disregarded is frustrating, but it makes \u003c\/i\u003eFrom South Central to Southside\u003ci\u003e an edifying read.\"\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"As Adam Baird’s rich and nuanced book \u003c\/i\u003eSouth Central to Southside\u003ci\u003e makes clear throughout, gender, along with race and class, is a key determinant in [Belize's] violence and its historical, socio-economic, and cultural origins.... [A] thoroughly grounded, highly readable, and empathetic analysis.\"\u003c\/i\u003e-\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInternational Feminist Journal of Politics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"I find myself thinking repeatedly about Adam Baird’s book months after having read it, pained by the vulnerability of the Belizeans he presents and the global colonial and ongoing imperial and neoliberal political economic forces he picks apart. He forces us to confront both the local and the global political economic forces implicating all of us.\"\u003c\/i\u003e–\u003cb\u003eFrom the foreword by Philippe Bourgois, author of \u003ci\u003eRighteous Dopefiend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhen he visited in 2011, sociologist Adam Baird wondered what the Bloods and Crips were doing in Southside Belize City. He soon discovered that migrant Belizean members of \u003ci\u003ecolors\u003c\/i\u003e gangs from South Central Los Angeles were deported there in the 1980s. Once established “back home,” membership in the Bloods and Crips was seen as an aspirational pathway to manhood for the urban underclass.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom South Central to Southside\u003c\/i\u003e charts the genesis and evolution of a transnational gang culture. Baird provides firsthand interviews with gang members and “narco” families and explains the surprising source of Belize City’s severe violence and skyrocketing homicide rates. He identifies gang violence in the U.S. and Belize as stemming from populations blighted by historical, brutal inequality and marginalization. Analyzing the gendered dynamics as young men and women face the temptations, risks, and dangers of gang life, Baird shines a light on “chronic vulnerability\" in Belize City.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52734389879064,"sku":"9781439923344","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/from-south-central-to-southside-gang-transnationalism-masculinity-and-disorganized-violence-in-belize-city-paperback-softback-9781439923344","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}