Sharing this walk : an ethnography of prison life and the PCC in Brazil / Karina Biondi ; edited and translated by John F. Collins.

Author
Biondi, Karina [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
1 online resource (xxviii, 194 pages)

Availability

Available Online

Details

Subject(s)
Editor
Translator
Writer of foreward
Series
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução [More in this series]
Summary note
"The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a São Paulo prison gang that since the 1990s has expanded into the most powerful criminal network in Brazil. ... During the period of Biondi's ... visits ... and her extensive fieldwork in prisons and on the streets of São Paulo, the PCC effectively controlled more than ninety percent of São Paulo's 147 prison facilities"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Source of description
Online resource; title from pdf title page (Proquest, viewed September 28, 2020).
Contents
  • Foreword by Jorge Mattar Villela
  • Introduction
  • The PCC
  • Politics and Pedagogy Inside the University
  • The Politics of Immanence
  • The Politics of Transcendence
  • Conclusion
  • Author's Afterword to the English-Language Edition
ISBN
  • 146963032X ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781469630328 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781469630311
  • 1469630311
OCLC
960711350
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