Welcome to the city shadows in Valdemingómez: a lawless landscape of drugs and violence. Through vivid testimonies and images, Briggs and Monge tell the stories of the people who live there, placing them in a political, economic and social context of spatial inequality and oppressive mechanisms of social control.
Introduction: Welcome to Valdemingómez;
Politics, `democracy' and the ideology of the postmodern city;
Madrid: History, social processes and the growth in inequality;
Drugs, cultural change and drug markets;
Journeys to dependence;
Life in the city shadows: Work, identity and social status;
The council, police and health services: An impasse to solutions;
Post dependency: What next?;
Not really the conclusion;
Epilogue.
