Exit Wounds - Ieva Jusionyte

Exit Wounds

How America's Guns Fuel Violence across the Border

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Buch | Hardcover
348 Seiten
2024
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39595-4 (ISBN)
29,90 inkl. MwSt
Turns the familiar story of trafficking across the US-Mexico border on its head, looking at firearms smuggled south from the United States to Mexico and their ricochet effects.
 
American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United States, anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte boldly embarked on a journey in the opposite direction—following the guns from dealers in Arizona and Texas to crime scenes in Mexico.
 
An expert work of narrative nonfiction, Exit Wounds provides a rare, intimate look into the world of firearms trafficking and urges us to understand the effects of lax US gun laws abroad. Jusionyte masterfully weaves together the gripping stories of people who live and work with guns north and south of the border: a Mexican businessman who smuggles guns for protection, a teenage girl turned trained assassin, two US federal agents trying to stop gun traffickers, and a journalist who risks his life to report on organized crime. Based on years of fieldwork, Exit Wounds expands current debates about guns in America, grappling with US complicity in violence on both sides of the border.

Ieva Jusionyte is an anthropologist and associate professor at Brown University. A former paramedic and Harvard Radcliffe and Fulbright fellow, she is the author of the award-winning Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border.

Contents

Map of the US-Mexico Borderlands 

The Workshop 
Shape of Wounds 
Recruited 
Arming the State 
With a Side of Beans 
Collateral Damage 
Ghost Highway 
The Last Letter 
The Camp 
The Player 
Poisoned City 
Fallen Sovereigns
Blurred Lines 
Brothers 
Revenge 
50 BMG 
Attitude 
Caged 
Homefront 
Metal Afterlives 
Epilogue 

Acknowledgments 
About This Project: Methods, Ethics, Sources 
Notes 
Selected Bibliography 
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie California Series in Public Anthropology ; 57
Zusatzinfo 1 map
Verlagsort Berkerley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 590 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-520-39595-6 / 0520395956
ISBN-13 978-0-520-39595-4 / 9780520395954
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