“Streets of menace”
Constructing and deconstructing youth “gangs” in two Australian cities
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https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1212Palabras clave:
jóvenes, violencia, desescalar, discurso de bandasResumen
Este artículo explora los efectos simbólicos e instrumentales relacionados con etiquetar grupos concretos de jóvenes como autores de actividad organizada de bandas. Utilizando estudios de caso de dos ciudades australianas, apuntamos principalmente a la naturaleza constitutiva y perniciosa de gran parte de los discursos mediáticos y públicos sobre delincuencia de bandas juveniles, y mostramos cómo la desventaja y la privación de derechos de los jóvenes delincuentes se invisibilizan o se desmaterializan a la hora de entender las causas y las soluciones a dichos problemas. En una época de noticias falsas, “ecocámaras” de las redes sociales, conflicto social, migración masiva internacional y diásporas forzosas, así como en la reasignación de fuertes fronteras soberanas, nos preguntamos cómo se puede desescalar la “monsterización” de jóvenes cuya identidad (y presencia y lugar en la sociedad) es conocida, sobre todo, si no exclusivamente, por el "ruido" y la visibilización de sus delitos.
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