Ieva Jusionyte (Orden de los libros)

Ieva Jusionyte Orden de los libros

Ieva Jusionyte es una antropóloga social cuyo trabajo se adentra en la política de las lesiones y el rescate en las zonas fronterizas militarizadas. Su investigación examina críticamente cómo los medios de comunicación dan forma a las percepciones del crimen y cómo los servicios de emergencia navegan las fronteras para salvar vidas. Investiga la compleja interacción entre las narrativas periodísticas y las realidades vividas en las intersecciones de diferentes culturas y sistemas políticos. Jusionyte ofrece una perspectiva distintiva sobre los desafíos inherentes a la documentación de la vida y el trabajo en entornos dinámicos y a menudo precarios.

Exit Wounds

347 páginas
13 horas de lectura

"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"--