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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"urban violence"”.
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PSYCHOSOCIAL RISK FACTORS FOR CYCLICAL URBAN VIOLENCE
Violence is a pervasive public health issue that disproportionately affects certain populations, particularly young black males in urban settings. Though this population experiences higher rates of violent victimization and perpetration, race should not be analyzed as an isolated variable. The …
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Crime in New Orleans: applying the civic community perspective to urban violence
… civic community theory and violent crime in urban areas. The current study aims to determine the applicability of the civic community perspective to urban areas, as a link has not been demonstrated in previous research. To test its applicability, census tract data are analyzed. The link …
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Marginality, Mayhem and Middle Class Anxieties: Imaginaries of Masculinity and Urban Violence in Contemporary Mexican and Brazilian Film
… Class Anxieties: Imaginaries of Masculinity and Urban Violence in Contemporary Mexican and Brazilian Film</em> is a comparative study that explores the confluence of cinematic discourse, violence, masculinity and constructions (or denial) of citizenship in present-day Latin America. My argument …
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Turismo e percepção do medo: o impacto da violência urbana no uso dos espaços públicos de Natal/RN
This thesis deals with the problems of urban violence in tourist destinations, considering fear as an emotion capable of influencing the decision-making of the tourist. As a central objective, one has to understand the perception of the fear of urban violence on the part of Natal tourists, in Rio …
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Negotiating pathways to manhood: Violence reproduction in Medellin's periphery. Exploring habitus and masculinity to explain young men's decisions to join armed groups in poor urban neighbourhoods of Colombia
In recent years urban violence has become understood as a 'reproduced', multi-causal and socially generated phenomenon. Less is understood about why young men reproduce the majority of this violence. This thesis uses original empirical data based on thirty-two life-histories of youths living in two …
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RISK AND COMMITMENT: CRITICAL DIMENSIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO COUNTER INSURGENCIES
… found the impact of such assistance for reducing violence and countering insurgents to be weaker than in Iraq, not connected to improvements in Afghan perceptions of the quality of their governance, and inconsequential in the long term. While these previous results seem disappointing, existing …
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Redeveloping division : the legacy of conflict and contested space in post-peace treaty Belfast, Northern Ireland
… of walling, ethnic segregation, sectarian violence, and imbalanced urban development have continued to reproduce themselves and reinforce one another in the present day, post-Good Friday city of Belfast. Situated within an understanding of the historic patterns of urban development and …
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Tactical cities : negotiating violence in Karachi, Pakistan
This thesis examines the relationship between violence and urbanity. Using Karachi, Pakistan, as a case study, it asks how violent cities are imagined and experienced by their residents. The thesis draws on a variety of theoretical and epistemological frameworks from urban studies to analyze the …
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Literatura policial: gender, genre, and appropriation in Argentine and Brazilian hard-boiled crime fiction.
… traditions with their own interpretations of urban violence and created new ways for women to speak in a genre that has been heavily dominated by men. As a popular genre associated with a conservative, Anglo-centric worldview, crime fiction was long ignored by critics of Latin American …
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Cidadania obstruída: jornais cariocas e a construção discursiva da violência no Rio
… in the construction of what it is called “urban violence”. With methodological resources of the Social Theory of Discourse and the Antonio Gramsci work, we analyze the disputes focusing the violence in Rio, in the nem fiom 2000 to 2002. We also show the hegemonic discourses in the way those …
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Planning a sectarian topography : revisiting Michel Ecochard's master plans for Beirut between 1941-1964
… around the work of French architect and urban planner Michel Ecochard in the early days of the Lebanese nation state frames his master plans for the capital Beirut as modernist tools for an ailing urban agglomeration, without considering the possible ramifications these plans could have …
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Bridging the gap : boundary-less bureaucrats and gang reintegration in Panama City
… One issue of growing concern for planners is urban violence, particularly gang violence. In Latin America, a region that stands out as one of the most violent in the world, repressive police and military tactics have generally failed to solve the problem of gang violence. Recently there has …
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Security Provision and Governing Processes in Fragile Cities of the Global South: The case of Medellin 2002-2012
The incidence of violence and the configuration of areas of instability, which have accompanied rapid urbanisation processes in the global South, have led to a wide range of responses by state authorities at different levels. These responses include attempts to control, prevent and/or manage …
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Agitations, Riots and the Transitional State in Calcutta, 1945-50
… Through a close analysis of local outbreaks of urban violence, it hopes to contribute to the understanding of decolonization in the subcontinent. It interrogates existing chronological and conceptual frameworks through which decolonization has been understood in the historiography of the region. …
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Exercising Non-Dominant Mediative Power Violence Interruption in the Periphery Communities of Florianópolis, Brazil
… how informal mediation is practiced in Brazil’s urban periphery communities, which are often associated with high levels of violence and insecurity. Based on ethnographic data from low-income neighborhoods in Florianópolis, my analysis of local people’s interventions offers insight into the way …
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Violência urbana: considerações sobre homicídios relacionados ao tráfico de drogas no bairro Santa Cruz em Santa Rita - PB (2012).
This work has aimed at tracing a profile, homicides which have been related to dealing drugs at Santa Cruz neighborhood in Santa Rita city which reflects the ruthless insecure reality in Brazil. This research discusses the historical sources and an expansion disorderly of the community, for …
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The production of marginality. Paradoxes of urban planning and housing policies in Cali, Colombia
… wide gamut of policies during the last 70 years, urban marginality persists in most Latin American cities. Although this condition has been strongly associated with informal settlements, the premise underpinning this research is that marginality can be produced by the state through the …
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Attacking cities: terrorism in Paris, London, and Manchester (2015-2020)
… factors regarding terrorist networks, yet the urban nature and implications of terrorism have received limited consideration, particularly regarding how terrorism and counterterrorism shape the materiality of urban spaces and intersect with urban life. To address these matters, this thesis …
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The Territorialization of the 'Republican Law': Judicial Presence in Seine-Saint-Denis, France
… efficiently fight crime and prevent collective violence among youths from immigrant origins. More specifically, the Houses of Justice and Law, or Maisons de Justice et du droit, and the Local Groups for the Treatment of Delinquency, or Groupes Locaux du Traitement de la Delinquance (GLTD), in …