The Central American Fear of Youth

Abstract: It is often asserted that youth gangs and organized crime have seized Central America. For theories on contemporary Central American violence, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua present important test cases, which demonstrate the need to differentiate the diagnosis. This paper is concerned with the social construction of violence-related national and transnational myths as a precondition for policy formulation. The notion of exploding youth violence is part of hegemonic discourses and not necessarily linked to lifeworld experiences. While discourses on youth violence differ from country to country, with varying threat levels, patterns of attention, and discursive leitmotifs, they share the monstrous image of brutal gangs (Mara Salvatrucha, Dieciocho) as the most vivid object of fear. https://www.ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/2872

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
The Central American Fear of Youth ; volume:5 ; number:2 ; day:17 ; month:12 ; year:2011
International journal of conflict and violence ; 5, Heft 2 (17.12.2011)

Urheber
Anika Oettler

DOI
10.4119/ijcv-2872
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020062210421789689406
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Anika Oettler

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