TRANSGANG
Transnational Gangs as Agents of Mediation: Experiences of Conflict Resolution in Street Youth Organizations in Southern Europe, North Africa and the Americas (TRANSGANG)
Transnational Gangs as Agents of Mediation: Experiences of Conflict Resolution in Street Youth Organizations in Southern Europe, North Africa and the Americas (TRANSGANG)
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Project title |
Transnational Gangs as Agents of Mediation: Experiences of Conflict Resolution in Street Youth Organizations in Southern Europe, North Africa and the Americas (TRANSGANG) |
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Key words |
Youth, Gang, Mediation, Transnational |
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Duration |
de 01/2018 a 12/2022(5 anys) |
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Principal Researcher/s |
Carles Feixa |
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Participant Institutions |
Universidad Pompeu Fabra |
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Financial Institution |
Advanced Grant del Consell Europeu de Recerca |
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Budget |
2,2 milions € |
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Summary |
The TRANSGANG project will develop a renewed model for the analysis of transnational youth gangs in the global era, in dialogue with two classics of urban ethnography, published nearly a century ago: The Gang, by F.M. Thrasher (1926) and The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, by W. I. Thomas and F. Znaniecki (1918‐1920). TRANSGANG has five main objectives, each of which will result in a series of deliverables. a) To review the historical literature on youth gangs in order to elaborate a theoretical synthesis. b) To develop a renewed model for the analysis of transnational youth gangs in the global age. c) To apply an experimental model for comparing gangs in two transnational groups: Latinos and Arabs. d) To explore experiences in which gangs have acted as agents of mediation, as well as barriers that block these attempts. e) To deduce more effective ways of intervention to prevent the hegemony of the criminal gang pattern that still appears so dominant in the neoliberal era. |
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