Representing, Politics, and the Politics of Representation in Gang Studies

Ramírez, Catherine S.

doi:10.1353/aq.2004.0063

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“…This is not to say that lowriders only have themselves to blame for any criminalization that results from their everyday performances: rather, it lends extra gravity to the decision lowriders sometimes make to refuse particular mandates to self‐governance. That lowriders persist in “representing” (Ramírez 2004), knowing it may make them a target of surveillance and regulation underscores the importance of lowriding to its participants.…”

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Custom Contestations: Lowriders and Urban Space

Chappell

2010

City & Society

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This article examines the production of space and contestation of spatial governmentality that occurs in the everyday cruising practices of lowrider car customizers in Austin, Texas. Lowrider style, practiced mostly, but not exclusively, by Mexican Americans, is a form of automotive aesthetics which carries associations with working-class, Latino/a barrio communities. Drawing on critical theories of the production and governance of space, I trace the politics inherent in lowrider cruising and the confrontations with police it occasions. From the perspective of lowriders, I present a critique of community policing as a practice of government, which has the effects of criminalizing lowriders and subjecting them to heightened levels of surveillance. [

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Custom Contestations: Lowriders and Urban Space

Chappell

2010

City & Society

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Delinquent Realities: Christianity, Formality, and Security in the Americas

O’Neill¹

2011

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In response to growing postwar violence in Guatemala, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) cosponsored a reality television show in which ten former gang members were split into two teams, each of which was expected to build a sustainable business within Guatemala's formal economy. This competition modeled a kind of entrepreneurial self-fashioning that relied on Christian images and imperatives to "formalize" the show's reportedly delinquent participants. Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork in Central and North America, this article explores how this Christian self-fashioning dramatizes an increasingly popular strategy for gang prevention and intervention throughout the Americas: regional security by way of good Christian living. Christianity today has become entangled with the geopolitics of American security, especially when it comes to efforts at gang abatement, linking the illegal activities of transnational criminal networks to the morality of individual men and women.

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Representing, Politics, and the Politics of Representation in Gang Studies

Cited by 2 publications

References 16 publications

Custom Contestations: Lowriders and Urban Space

Custom Contestations: Lowriders and Urban Space

Delinquent Realities: Christianity, Formality, and Security in the Americas

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