Abstract

MORENO HERNANDEZ, Hugo César. The notion of community applied to transnational gangs. Tla-melaua [online]. 2018, vol.12, n.44, pp.208-240. ISSN 2594-0716.

The present article analyzes the tension between internal hospitality and outside hostility, the relations within the transnational gangs of El Salvador. The testimony given by members of Gang 18 and Mara Salvatrucha 13 are the source as to think of these groups as beyond assimilation to organized crime. Through the debt factor notion, it is observed how the external hostility imposes a form of community- based on hospitality, as to what it is proposed by the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito, violence towards society as a political formation. In this way, the proclivity of the gangs towards violence is not denied, but it is sought to understand how this violence destructive power also unites these individuals.

Keywords : Transnational gangs; hospitality; community; violence.

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