Violence at the Urban Margins
Edited by Javier Auyero, Philippe Bourgois, and Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Author Information
Javier Auyero is Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor in Latin American Sociology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin.
Philippe Bourgois is the Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology and Family & Community Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Contributors:
Javier Auyero is the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Professor of Latin American Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Patients of the State, and, together with anthropologist Debora Swistun, of Flammable. Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown.
Adam Baird is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Urban Governance and Peace program at the UN Mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica. He is co-editor of Paz, Paso a Paso: Una mirada a los conflictos Colombianos desde los estudios de paz.
Philippe Bourgois is the Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology and Family & Community Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books including, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, Righteous Dopefiend (co-authored with Jeff Schonberg) and Violence in War and Peace (co-edited with Nancy Scheper-Hughes).
Randol Contreras is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of the Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream, which ethnographically analyzes the lives of Dominican drug robbers in the South Bronx.
Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela is a Guatemalan national, graduate of Columbia University (New York), and PhD student in the Princeton University Department of Anthropology.
Alice Goffman is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City.
Mo Hume is Senior lecturer in Politics at the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She is author of The Politics of Violence: Gender, Conflict and Community in El Salvador.
Kristine Kilanski is a PhD student in the Department of Sociology and a Graduate Student Fellow in the Ethnography Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research focuses on gender, racial, and class inequality in the labor force and poverty.
Manuel Llorens is a Clinical and Community Psychologist. He teaches at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello of Caracas, Venezuela. He is the co-author of Niños con Experiencia de Vida en la Calle and of Violencia Armada y Acuerdos de Convivencia en una Comunidad Caraqueña.
Kevin Lewis O'Neill is associate professor at the University of Toronto. He is the author of City of God: Christian Citizenship in Guatemala and the forthcoming Killing Them Softly: Piety and Prevention in Postwar Guatemala.
Dennis Rodgers is Professor of Urban Social and Political Research in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK. His recent publications include the edited volumes Latin American Urban Development into the 21st Century: Towards a Renewed Perspective on the City and Global Gangs: Street Violence Across the World .
Nancy Scheper-Hughes is professor of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of, among other works, Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics, and Death without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil.
John Souto is a psychologist. He is the coordinator of the School Psychology at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello (UCAB). In recent years, Mr. Souto has participated in care spaces for women victims of violence, children and youth with histories of abuse and neglect. He is the co-author of Acuerdos de Convivencia en una Comunidad Caraqueña.
Ana Villarreal is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation examines the impact of increased drug violence and fear of crime on everyday life in urban Mexico.
Polly Wilding is lecturer in Gender and International Development at the University of Leeds, UK. She is author of Negotiating Boundaries: Gender, Violence and Transformation in Brazil.
Verónica Zubillaga is Professor at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas. Her publications include El nuevo malestar en la cultura, together with Hugo José Suárez and Guy Bajoit, and Violencia Armada y Acuerdos de Convivencia en una Comunidad Caraqueña together with Manuel Llorens, Gilda Núñez and John Souto.
