UID:
almafu_9959673944702883
Umfang:
1 online resource (240 p.) :
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1 table
ISBN:
9780822393924
Inhalt:
Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America’s longest and bloodiest civil war and impelled the transition from a state-centric economy to the global free market, Guatemala’s neoliberal moment is now strikingly evident in the practices and politics of security. Postwar violence has not prompted public debates about the conditions that permit transnational gangs, drug cartels, and organized crime to thrive. Instead, the dominant reaction to crime has been the cultural promulgation of fear and the privatization of what would otherwise be the state’s responsibility to secure the city. This collection of essays, the first comparative study of urban Guatemala, explores these neoliberal efforts at security. Contributing to the anthropology of space and urban studies, this book brings together anthropologists and historians to examine how postwar violence and responses to it are reconfiguring urban space, transforming the relationship between city and country, and exacerbating deeply rooted structures of inequality and ethnic discrimination.Contributors. Peter Benson, Manuela Camus, Avery Dickins de Girón, Edward F. Fischer, Deborah Levenson, Thomas Offit, Kevin Lewis O’Neill, Kedron Thomas, Rodrigo José Véliz
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Securing the City An Introduction --
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Living Guatemala City, 1930s–2000s --
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Primero de Julio Urban Experiences of Class Decline and Violence --
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Cacique for a Neoliberal Age A Maya Retail Empire on the Streets of Guatemala City --
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Privatization of Public Space The Displacement of Street Vendors in Guatemala City --
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The Security Guard Industry in Guatemala Rural Communities and Urban Violence --
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Guatemala’s New Violence as Structural Violence Notes from the Highlands --
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Spaces of Structural Adjustment in Guatemala’s Apparel Industry --
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Hands of Love Christian Outreach and the Spatialization of Ethnicity --
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References --
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Ethnologie
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9780822393924
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822393924
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822393924
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822393924
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822393924
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822393924?locatt=mode:legacy
