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For the past five years, the GANGS project<\/a>, a European Research Council<\/a>-funded project led by Dennis Rodgers<\/a>, has been studying global gang dynamics in a comparative perspective. When understood in a nuanced manner that goes beyond the usual stereotypes and Manichean representations, gangs and gangsters arguably constitute fundamental lenses through which to think about and understand the world we live in<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kieran Mitton<\/a> tells us about the life of Gaz, a former Sierra Leonean gang member who became…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> For the past five years, the GANGS project, a European Research Council-funded project led by Dennis Rodgers, has been studying global gang dynamics in a comparative perspective. When understood in a nuanced manner that goes beyond the usual stereotypes and Manichean representations, gangs and gangsters arguably constitute fundamental lenses through which to think about and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00260507:f0654e72e11488d7a072f9ad6f036d1f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,6614,20815,20592,15087,49552,257,8859,6571,1135,254,10777,2148],"class_list":["post-180831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drugs","tag-gangs","tag-gangster","tag-gave","tag-leonian","tag-news","tag-poetry","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stories","tag-violence"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00260507:f0654e72e11488d7a072f9ad6f036d1f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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