Ieva Jusionyte (Ordre des livres)

Ieva Jusionyte Ordre des livres

Ieva Jusionyte est une anthropologue sociale dont le travail explore la politique des blessures et du sauvetage dans les zones frontalières militarisées. Sa recherche examine de manière critique comment les médias façonnent les perceptions du crime et comment les services d'urgence franchissent les frontières pour sauver des vies. Elle enquête sur l'interaction complexe entre les récits journalistiques et les réalités vécues aux intersections de différentes cultures et systèmes politiques. Jusionyte offre une perspective distinctive sur les défis inhérents à la documentation de la vie et du travail dans des environnements dynamiques et souvent précaires.

Exit Wounds

347pages
13 heures de lecture

"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"--