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Sharing This Walk
An Ethnography of Prison Life and the PCC in Brazil
Karina Biondi
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/2016
Pages: 222
Subject: History, Social Science
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9780000000000
eBook ISBN: 9781469630328
DESCRIPTION
Available for the first time in English, Biondi's riveting portrait of the PCC illuminates how the organization operates inside and outside of prison, creatively elaborating on a decentered, non-hierarchical, and far-reaching command system. This system challenges both the police forces against which the PCC has declared war and the methods and analytic concepts traditionally employed by social scientists concerned with crime, incarceration, and policing. Biondi posits that the PCC embodies a "politics of transcendence," a group identity that is braided together with, but also autonomous from, its decentralized parts. Biondi also situates the PCC in relation to redemocratization and rampant socioeconomic inequality in Brazil, as well as to counter-state movements, crime, and punishment in the Americas.
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