“朱莉娅”紧张地从马德里郊区荒原上破旧的帐篷里走出来，在欧洲问题最严重的贫民区之一面对又一天的生存：她无家可归，被警方通缉，并且对海洛因和可卡因上瘾。她还怀孕五个月，很少与支持服务部门联系。欢迎来到Valdemingómez的城市阴影：第三世界与狂野的西方相遇的毒品和暴力的无法无天景观。Briggs和Monge带着他们的耐心、一些香烟和一部手机进入了这个地区，收集了Julia和其他住在那里的人的生动证词和照片。这本重要的书记录了他们的发现，将这些人的故事和情况置于空间不平等和压迫性社会控制机制的政治、经济和社会背景中。
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Dead-End Lives: Drugs and Violence in the City Shadows
“Julia” nervously emerges from her shabby tent in the suburban wastelands on the outskirts of Madrid to face another day of survival in one of Europe’s most problematic ghettos: she is homeless, wanted by the police, and addicted to heroin and cocaine. She is also five months pregnant and rarely makes contact with support services. Welcome to the city shadows in Valdemingómez: a lawless landscape of drugs and violence where the third world meets the Wild West. Briggs and Monge entered this area with only their patience, some cigarettes and a mobile phone and collected vivid testimonies and images of Julia and others like her who live there. This important book documents what they found, locating these people’s stories and situations in a political, economic and social context of spatial inequality and oppressive mechanisms of social control.
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