Donna De Cesare

Paola Miraglia, 'Between me and you and among us – homicides, gangs and individuals in the periphery of São Paulo'

Cordula Stocka, 'Victims or Villains? Youth Gangs in the aftermath of War and Displacement: the case of Ayacucho, Peru'

Dennis Rodgers (discussant)

Donna De Cesare

After completing an M.Phil in Literature (1979) at the University of Essex in Great Britain, Donna De Cesare began working as a freelance photographer becoming a founding member of the Impact Visuals Photography cooperative in 1984.De Cesare joined the journalism faculty at University of Texas an Assistant Professor in 2002. In 2003 she was named a fellow of the Dart Society for the Study of Journalism and Trauma and in 2004 she joined the Advisory Board of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas.

Paola Miraglia

Paula Miraglia holds a Master Degree in Social Anthropology at Anthropology Department of University of São Paulo (USP) and is a Ph.D. candidate at the same department. She is also a member of the editorial team of Sexta feira – antropologia, artes e humanidades and a researcher of Sou da Paz Institute for the Public Security Policies.

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Cordula Strocka

Cordula Strocka is a psychologist by training and was educated at the Universities of Freiburg and Jena, Germany. Currently, she is doing a Ph.D. in Development Studies at the University of Oxford. She was born in Berlin, Germany, and has lived several years in Bolivia and Peru. Her research interests are intergroup conflict; youth cultures and youth organisations (including youth gangs); child labour. Her geographical area of specialisation is Latin America.
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Dennis Rodgers

Dennis Rodgers is lecturer in development studies and research officer with the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics. He is a Cambridge-trained social anthropologist, and works on issues of violence and social breakdown in Nicaragua, and urban governance in Argentina. He has carried out extensive participant observation fieldwork in a Managua slum, during which he was ritually initiated into the local youth gang. His has published a number of articles on the subject, and is in the process of preparing a book manuscript provisionally entitled Living in the Shadow of Death: Gangs, Violence, and Social Order in Nicaragua.