Ieva Jusionyte (Libri)

Ieva Jusionyte Libri

Ieva Jusionyte è un'antropologa sociale il cui lavoro approfondisce la politica delle lesioni e del soccorso nelle zone di confine militarizzate. La sua ricerca esamina criticamente come i media plasmano la percezione della criminalità e come i soccorritori attraversano i confini per salvare vite. Indaga la complessa interazione tra le narrazioni giornalistiche e le realtà vissute all'incrocio tra diverse culture e sistemi politici. Jusionyte offre una prospettiva distintiva sulle sfide inerenti alla documentazione della vita e del lavoro in ambienti dinamici e spesso precari.

Exit Wounds

347pagine
13 ore di lettura

"Guns are relational: they can be tools of violence or of protection. Bullets injure individuals and communities, creating collective damage. In the United States, gun violence has reached alarming levels, but the effects of firearms sold in this country don't stop at its borders. American guns have torn the social fabric of Mexican society in ways that have entangled the lives of citizens on both sides of the border-Mexicans and Americans-in a vicious circle of violence. While migrants and refugees are fleeing north, seeking safety in the United States, Exit Wounds follows the guns going south, from dealers in Arizona and Texas to crime scenes in Mexico. Through stories of people who live and work with guns on both sides of the border and either side of the law-a businessman who smuggles guns, a girl who becomes a trained assassin, two federal agents who try to stop gun traffickers, a journalist reporting on organized crime-the book grapples with US complicity in violence south of the border and examines the impact of American guns on both countries"--