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Exit Wounds : How America's Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border by Ieva Jusionyte (2024, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of California Press
ISBN-100520395956
ISBN-139780520395954
eBay Product ID (ePID)19062514739
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Book TitleExit Wounds : How America's Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border
Number of Pages348 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicManufacturing, Violence in Society, Anthropology / General
Publication Year2024
IllustratorYes
GenreTechnology & Engineering, Social Science
AuthorIeva Jusionyte
Book SeriesCalifornia Series in Public Anthropology Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight20.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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LCCN2023-028617
ReviewsIt wasn't until [Jusionyte] worked as an emergency paramedic along both sides of the border in Nogales, Arizona--and earned a PhD that included ethnographic research--that she was thrust into a world that forced her seismic mental shift away from popular beliefs about guns and the U.S.-Mexico border., An extraordinarily brave researcher, [Jusionyte] spent years getting to know gun runners, members of critical gangs, law enforcement officials on both sides of the border, and the journalists and community members who have witnessed the terrible toll of U.S.-made buns in Mexico. . . . In her epilogue, Jusionyte makes suggestions for enlightened policies to mitigate the plague of gun violence in Mexico and the 'border crisis' caused by people fleeing repression and extortion., Jusionyte was reluctant to start research into guns, but the primary accelerant of the cycle of violence and migration seemed just too obvious, and too little remarked on in the US, to ignore., The book's success lies in the people she meets and the stories they tell...Jusionyte reports these stories richly and with great sympathy.
Dewey Edition23/eng/20230809
Series Volume Number57
Dewey Decimal363.330973
Table Of ContentContents Map of the US-Mexico Borderlands The Workshop Shape of Wounds Recruited Arming the State With a Side of Beans Collateral Damage Ghost Highway The Last Letter The Camp The Player Poisoned City Fallen Sovereigns Blurred Lines Brothers Revenge 50 BMG Attitude Caged Homefront Metal Afterlives Epilogue Acknowledgments About This Project: Methods, Ethics, Sources Notes Selected Bibliography Index
SynopsisTurns the familiar story of trafficking across the US-Mexico border on its head, looking at firearms smuggled south from the United States to Mexico and their ricochet effects. American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United States, anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte boldly embarked on a journey in the opposite direction--following the guns from dealers in Arizona and Texas to crime scenes in Mexico. An expert work of narrative nonfiction, Exit Wounds provides a rare, intimate look into the world of firearms trafficking and urges us to understand the effects of lax US gun laws abroad. Jusionyte masterfully weaves together the gripping stories of people who live and work with guns north and south of the border: a Mexican businessman who smuggles guns for protection, a teenage girl turned trained assassin, two US federal agents trying to stop gun traffickers, and a journalist who risks his life to report on organized crime. Based on years of fieldwork, Exit Wounds expands current debates about guns in America, grappling with US complicity in violence on both sides of the border.
LC Classification NumberTS533.4.M58J875 2024
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