Gothic sovereignty : street gangs and statecraft in Honduras

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Gothic sovereignty : street gangs and statecraft in Honduras

Jon Horne Carter

(The William & Bettye Nowlin series in art, history, and culture of the Western Hemisphere)

University of Texas Press, 2022

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Gang-related violence has forced thousands of Hondurans to flee their country, leaving behind everything as refugees and undocumented migrants abroad. To uncover how this happened, Jon Carter looks back to the mid-2000s, when neighborhood gangs were scrambling to survive state violence and mass incarceration, locating there a critique of neoliberal globalization and state corruption that foreshadows Honduras's current crises. Carter begins with the story of a thirteen-year-old gang member accused in the murder of an undercover DEA agent, asking how the nation's seductive criminal underworld has transformed the lives of young people. He then widens the lens to describe a history of imperialism and corruption that shaped this underworld-from Cold War counterinsurgency to the "War on Drugs" to the near-impunity of white-collar crime-as he follows local gangs who embrace new trades in the illicit economy. Carter describes the gangs' transformation from neighborhood groups to sprawling criminal societies, even in the National Penitentiary, where they have become political as much as criminal communities. Gothic Sovereignty reveals not only how the revolutionary potential of gangs was lost when they merged with powerful cartels but also how close analysis of criminal communities enables profound reflection on the economic, legal, and existential discontents of globalization in late liberal nation-states.

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Preface A Note on Translations and Anonymization Introduction Part I. Angels Chapter 1. Flash Chapter 2. Baroque Chapter 3. Allegory Chapter 4. Image Chapter 5. Danger Part II. Devils Chapter 6. Underworld Chapter 7. Dragons Chapter 8. Crime Chapter 9. Storm Chapter 10. Rubbish Chapter 11. Evil Chapter 12. Corruption Chapter 13. Lumpen Part III: Justice Chapter 14. Community Chapter 15. Sovereignty Chapter 16. Apocalypse Chapter 17. Trust Chapter 18. Futures Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Index

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