Shades of violence: Crisis and conflict in Venezuela.

Title: Shades of violence: Crisis and conflict in Venezuela.
Identifier: AAI9807928
identifier: 9807928
Creator: Ewing, Walter Arthur.
Contributor: Adviser: Joan Mencher
Date: 1997
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Anthropology, Cultural | Political Science, General | Sociology, Social Structure and Development | Sociology, Public and Social Welfare | Sociology, Criminology and Penology
Abstract: The debt crises and structural adjustment programs of the 1980s and 90s have fostered social and political upheaval around the globe. The effects of this upheaval go beyond the simple expansion of poverty as incomes fall and prices rise. Along with the desperation and discontent of poverty come rising rates of drug abuse, crime, gang violence, political protest, and repression by state security forces. Caracas, Venezuela, is one of the many cities of the world where this dynamic of poverty, violence, protest, and repression is keenly felt. This dissertation describes fourteen months of fieldwork that was conducted from November 1993 to December 1994. This fieldwork included eight months spent in an impoverished barrio popular that was subject to chronic water shortages, gang warfare, a crumbling system of political patronage, and street sweeps by the police and National Guard.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.