Jose Sanchez

• Pompeu Fabra University

Ethnography and cinema as meditation tools in gang research In this article, Carles Feixa and José Sánchez-García share two main results of the Special Features of the TRANSGANG project: White Paper and Documentary films which looks at mediation tools in gang research. During the last five years, the TRANSGANG Project has investigated transnational...

Several authors have highlighted the importance of marriage as a social marker that alters the social categorization of individuals and their relationships from youth to adulthood, according to the cultural construction of the life course in Arab countries. This article analyzes the interaction between the socio-political framework (structure) and...

Various authors have highlighted the importance of marriage as a social marker that alter the so-cial categorization of individuals and their relationships from youth to adulthood according to the cultural construction of the life course in Arab countries. This article aims to analyze the in-teraction between the socio-political framework (structur...

A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43151-020-00028-y

Call for papers Gangs are described as an episodic phenomenon comparable across diverse geographical sites, with the US gang stereotype often operating as an archetype. Mirroring this trend, academic researchers have increasingly sought to survey the global topography of gangs through positivist methodologies that seek out universal characteristic...

The young worlds recreated in the chapters that make up this book refer to a world of resistance, creativity and alternative or countercultural forms of sociability—therefore, submerged, hidden, in the peripheral neighbourhoods and in the associative centres. All of them show agencies that oppose the typical adult-centrism of heteropatriarchal soci...

Resumen (analítico)Las teorías sobre movimientos sociales dominantes basadas en experiencias occidentales, pero ¿en qué medida pueden ayudarnos a comprender el proceso de construcción solidaria de prácticas políticas en contextos no occidentales políticamente cerrados? Según Bayat parece imprescindible una aproximación teórica que tenga en cuenta t...

El concepto de generaciones de Mannheim, aplicado al estudio de los movimientos sociales españoles, permiten comprender las lecturas diferenciadas que se han dado sobre un evento concreto (el 15M). Dichas lecturas muestran las diferenciaciones que se viven dentro de los movimientos sociales post-15M entre agentes y grupos variados. En este trabajo,...

Analizamos los diferentes escenarios que afronta nuestro proyecto de investigación al decretarse la alerta sanitaria por Coronavirus, partiendo de un cuestionario realizado a 16 investigadores/as del proyecto TRANSGANG en el Magreb, el sur de Europa y las Américas. En primer lugar, analizamos el impacto de las medidas de distanciamiento físico sobr...

In the twenty-first century, the traditional conformation of gangs has been altered for several reasons. The present global economic situation changed the context of gangs, and as a feature of this century, the Internet and social media have shifted social relations and the way urban gang members interact. Ethnographic data demonstrate that gang me...

Este artículo ofrece un enfoque alternativo para analizar experiencias sociales, políticas y culturales como el Mahragan, situadas en estructuras de poder asimétricas históricamente construidas, más allá de las dicotomías epistemológicamente dominantes que contrastan entre islam y modernidad. Me propongo entonces, a partir experiencias etnográficas...

This document is sharing the methodological perspective on ethnography and data analysis of the TRANSGANG project. The aim is to provide to the local research teams a guide about ethnographic perspectives, tools and data analyses strategy, to be able to apply using NVivo software, and some references to ensure these perspectives. The objective of t...

Gangs have been described as an episodic phenomenon comparable across diverse geographical sites, with the US gang stereotype often acting as the archetype. Mirroring this trend, academic researchers have increasingly sought to survey the global topography of gangs through positivist methodologies that seek out universal characteristics of gangs in...

This text presents the key concepts of the TRANSGANG project in the form of answers to seven research questions: what, when, who, why, where, how and what for. We start by defining the conceptual triangle configured by the title: Transnational Gangs as agents of Mediation (What). The central chapters give the historical context: Neoliberal States (...

The text is organized in five sections. Section 1, prepared by Carles Feixa and José Sánchez-Garcia, is this introduction to the entire document. Section 2, prepared by Andrés García Berrio, gives a general overview of youth street groups in legislative codes. Section 3 contains analyses of the legal codes for each TRANSGANG country. The section on...

¿Cómo aparece retratada la justicia en el cine y la televisión que vemos? ¿Qué aparece en la pantalla como la realidad» de tribunales, jueces, fiscales y abogados? Para abordar estas preguntas se propuso a los autores de este libro que escogieran una película, un director o un tema, para examinar aquello que la producción cinematográfica o televisi...

The chapter analyzes the political engagement of the youth in Egypt and Tunisia, two countries where the Arab uprising apparently succeeded. Based on an inclusive definition of political participation, where informal participation practices used by young people in the Global South are applied, three main questions will be considered in the chapter:...

Para os jovens homens dos bairros populares do Cairo, a música mahragan tornou-se, desde meados dos anos 2000, uma forma de mídia importante para criticar sua condição de marginaliza- ção. A música mahragan já era popular entre todos os grupos sociais quando ocorreram os eventos políticos de 2011 no Egito, tendo se espalhado por toda cidade do Cair...