Garot2007
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Robert Garot |
| Title | “Where You From!” Gang Identity as Performance |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Ethnomethodology, gangs, identity, performance, inner-city, boundaries |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Journal | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography |
| Volume | 36 |
| Number | 1 |
| Pages | 50–84 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1177/0891241606287364 |
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Abstract
This article investigates how young people in an inner-city ecology invoke the relevance of gangs by demanding, “Where you from!” Such a challenge creates a lively venue for performing identity and emotional manipulation for both the instigator who offers the challenge and the respondent. Rather than conceptualizing young people as gang members and gangs as a static group, this analysis shows how the doing of gangs is strategic and context sensitive. Such an approach provides an alternative to conceptualizing identity, and especially gang identity, not as a fixed personal characteristic but as a sensual response to a moment’s vicissitudes.
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