UCOPress Editorial Universidad de Córdoba has just published Vidas improvisadas. Historias de menores infractores (Improvised Lives: Stories of Juvenile Offenders) by anthropologist Ignacio Alcalde, a professor at the University of Córdoba.

The work, which straddles the line between fiction and ethnography, collects the life stories of former juvenile offenders and presents them through a narrator who engages with them, questioning and challenging some of the classic tenets of social theory.

With a highly distinctive narrative style, the book invites readers to get to know these young people firsthand: how they ended up in a detention center, what transformations they underwent—if any—and how they remember that period today.

Vidas improvisadas is a study that invites reflection on the impact of detention and, at the same time, offers an unusual perspective for approaching this group: their own. The book was produced with the assistance of the research group “SEJ-685 Conflict and Reparation: Sociocultural and Legal Studies,” led by Manuel Torres.

It will be presented today, Wednesday, May 13, at 8:00 p.m. at La Inaudita (20 Rodríguez Marín Street). Free admission.

Link to the printed book: https://ucopress.uco.es/producto/isbn-9788499279770/

The e-book can be downloaded in PDF format via Open Access by registering on our website and adding it to your shopping cart: https://ucopress.uco.es/producto/isbn-9788499279787/

You can also access the digital version directly through the publisher’s OMP publications catalog using its DOI: https://doi.org/10.21071/000057