Gothic Sovereignty: Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras

by Jon Horne Carter

Gang-related violence has forced thousands of Hondurans to flee their country, leaving behind everything as refugees and undocumented migrants abroad. To uncover how this happened, Jon Carter looks back to the mid-2000s, when neighborhood gangs were scrambling to survive state violence and mass incarceration, locating there a critique of neoliberal globalization and state corruption that foreshadows Honduras's current crises.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147732416X
• ISBN13: 9781477324165
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"