Overview
- Asks why people join outlaw motorcycle clubs
- Theorizes these gangs as transnational social phenomena, existing within a changing cultural, political and socio-economic context
- Draws on an ethnographic study primarily in Europe and California
- Sits at the boundary between social anthropology, criminology and critical studies
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“Tereza Kuldova is a rebel with a cause - her new book is a razor-sharp critique of stereotypical conceptions of the ‘outlaw biker’ and provides refreshing insights into their subjective life-worlds” - Daniel Briggs, author of the award-winning Dead-End Lives.
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About the author
Tereza Kuldova is a social anthropologist and Researcher at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo, Norway. She is the author of Luxury Indian Fashion: A Social Critique (2016), editor of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Street Gangs: Scheming Legality, Resisting Criminalization (2018), and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How Outlaws Win Friends and Influence People
Authors: Tereza Kuldova
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15206-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-15205-5Published: 19 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-15206-2Published: 09 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 214
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Organized Crime, Crime and Society, Criminal Behavior, Social Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology