Fire next time: gangs, prison, and the apocalyptic image in Honduras
This essay examines the significance of gang tattooing in the wake of two prison fires in Honduras, to ask how the infernal and apocalyptic visions of these images might be interpreted politically. I ask how pagan magic, vanquished from the Christian world, resists the work of Christian rehabilitati...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Carceral communities in Latin America
Year: 2021, Pages: 127-143 |
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| Summary: | This essay examines the significance of gang tattooing in the wake of two prison fires in Honduras, to ask how the infernal and apocalyptic visions of these images might be interpreted politically. I ask how pagan magic, vanquished from the Christian world, resists the work of Christian rehabilitation and evangelization and, therefore, social reintegration of communities criminalized in late-liberal states. In this rereading of gang politics in Honduras, I ask how the whitewashing of those prison fires by official investigations allegorized them into tattoo art and became the basis for an untimely, subterranean, and occult politics waged outside the democratic arena, directed at the magic of the state itself. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 142-143 |
| ISBN: | 9783030614980 |
