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Incarceration Nations Network eBook Series

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  • Brazilians in Dialogue Between the University and the Prison

    by Karina Biondi, Dr Baz Dreisinger ...
    Series series Incarceration Nations Network
    Are you interested in exploring a unique perspective on crime and punishment?Karina Biondi's groundbreaking book is the result of an extension project at the State University of Maranhão, Brazil. It offers training for individuals inside and outside the prison system to produce and systematize their knowledge about prison life. Aligned with the principles of Criminology of Convicts, this book ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Sex at the Margins

    Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry

    by Laura María Agustin ...
    This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest.Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Patients of the State

    The Politics of Waiting in Argentina

    by Javier Auyero ...
    Patients of the State is a sociological account of the extended waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative services must endure. It is based on ethnographic research in the waiting area of the main welfare office in Buenos Aires, in the line leading into the Argentine registration office where legal aliens apply for identification cards, and among people who live in a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Homies and Hermanos

    God and Gangs in Central America

    by Robert Brenneman ...
    Using the tools of sociological theory, Robert Brenneman seeks to discover why a pot-smoking, gun-wielding "homie" gang member would want to trade in la vida loca for a Bible and the buttoned-down lifestyle of an evangelical hermano (brother in Christ) - and to what extent this strategy works for the many youth who have tried it. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Anti-Black City

    Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil

    by Jaime Amparo Alves ...
    An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in BrazilWhile Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh police tactics and repressive state policies often breaking racial lines. In The Anti-Black City, Jaime Amparo Alves delves into the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • La Lucha

    Latin American Feminism Today

    Edited by Carolina Orloff ...
    Series series Essays
    From Mexico to Patagonia, the struggle for women's rights in Latin America comes alive in the voices of the artists and activists making the change.La Lucha gathers the voices of 30 artists, scholars, and activists, from 17 countries, actively engaged in the fight for women’s rights in Latin America. From the patriarchy to femicide, to the inflections of identity embedded in colour, class, and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adiós Niño

    The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death

    by Deborah T. Levenson ...
    In Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called Maras from their emergence in the 1980s to the early 2000s. A historical study, Adiós Niño describes how fragile spaces of friendship and exploration turned into rigid and violent ones in which youth, and especially young men, came to employ death as a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Black American Men and Brazilian Women

    by Neil Turner ...
    Recently, there is an increase in discussion and debate concerning cross-cultural and ethno-cultural relationships. Topics such as social institutions, demographic trends, beliefs, values and cultural traditions have become important to this research. Social evolutionary scholars are guiding much of this work but cultural dimensions are of less interest. This book provides the cultural perspective ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Porque Estamos Aquí

    Puerto Rican Feminisms In but Against Empire

    Edited by Jessica Nydia Pabón-Colón ...
    A future classic collection of Puerto Rican feminist writing that spans time, terrain, and phases, invokes voices across generations and fields, and bridges island and diaspora.In her years of scholarship and activism with fellow Puerto Rican feminists, editor Jessica N. Pabón-Colón reached for a feminism to ground her work and validate the women who paved her way—but in her search for a specific ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Violence and Resilience in Latin American Cities

    Edited by Kees Koonings, Dirk Kruijt ...
    Why are Latin American cities amongst the most violent in the world? Over the past decades Latin America has not only become the most urbanised of the regions of the so-called global South, it has also been the scene of the urbanisation of poverty and exclusion. Overall regional homicides rates are the highest in the world, a fact closely related to the spread and use of firearms by male youths, ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Unsettling

    The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the US-Mexico Border

    by Gilberto Rosas ...
    Analyzes how border and immigration enforcement culminated in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.Honorable Mention for the American Ethnological Society Senior Book PrizeOn August 3, 2019, a far-right extremist committed a deadly mass shooting at a major shopping center in El Paso, Texas, a city on the border of the United States and Mexico. In Unsettling, Gilberto Rosas situates this devastating ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Incarcerated Stories

    Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State

    by Shannon Speed ...
    Series series Critical Indigeneities
    Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the United States, like all asylum seekers. But as Shannon Speed argues, the circumstances for Indigenous women are especially devastating, given their disproportionate vulnerability to neoliberal economic and political policies and practices in Latin ... Read more

    $20.99 USD