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Sharing This Walk
An Ethnography of Prison Life and the PCC in Brazil
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Available for the first time in English, Biondi's riveting portrait of the PCC illuminates how the organization operates inside and outside of prison, creatively elaborating on a decentered, non-hierarchical, and far-reaching command system. This system challenges both the police forces against which the PCC has declared war and the methods and analytic concepts traditionally employed by social scientists concerned with crime, incarceration, and policing. Biondi posits that the PCC embodies a "politics of transcendence," a group identity that is braided together with, but also autonomous from, its decentralized parts. Biondi also situates the PCC in relation to redemocratization and rampant socioeconomic inequality in Brazil, as well as to counter-state movements, crime, and punishment in the Americas.

- Karina Biondi - Author
- John F. Collins - Translator
Kindle Book
- Release date: November 14, 2016
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- ISBN: 9781469630328
- File size: 1289 KB
- Release date: November 14, 2016
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9781469630328
- File size: 1289 KB
- Release date: November 14, 2016
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Kindle Book
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English
Available for the first time in English, Biondi's riveting portrait of the PCC illuminates how the organization operates inside and outside of prison, creatively elaborating on a decentered, non-hierarchical, and far-reaching command system. This system challenges both the police forces against which the PCC has declared war and the methods and analytic concepts traditionally employed by social scientists concerned with crime, incarceration, and policing. Biondi posits that the PCC embodies a "politics of transcendence," a group identity that is braided together with, but also autonomous from, its decentralized parts. Biondi also situates the PCC in relation to redemocratization and rampant socioeconomic inequality in Brazil, as well as to counter-state movements, crime, and punishment in the Americas.

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Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Kindle Book
Release date: November 14, 2016
OverDrive Read
ISBN: 9781469630328
File size: 1289 KB
Release date: November 14, 2016
EPUB ebook
ISBN: 9781469630328
File size: 1289 KB
Release date: November 14, 2016
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Creators
- Karina Biondi - Author
- John F. Collins - Translator
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Formats
Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook
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Languages
English
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