Securing the City

Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala
Herausgeber: O'Neill, Kevin Lewis

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Produktbeschreibung

Anthropologists and historians examine how postwar violence in Guatemala City is reconfiguring urban space, transforming the relationship between city and country, and exacerbating structures of inequality and ethnic discrimination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349587
• ISBN-10: 0822349582
• Artikelnr.: 32470929

Autorenporträt

Kevin Lewis O Neill and Kedron Thomas, eds.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Securing the City: An Introduction / Kedron Thomas, Kevin Lewis O'Neill,
and Thomas Offit 1
Part One: Urban History and Social Experience
Living Guatemala City, 1930s-2000s / Deborah Levenson 25
Primero de Julio: Urban Experiences of Class Decline and Violence / Manuela
Camus 49
Cacique for a Neoliberal Age: A Maya Retail Empire on the Streets of
Guatemala City / Thomas Offit 67
Privatization of Public Sphere: The Displacement of Street Vendors in
Guatemala City / Rodrigo J. Véliz and Kevin Lewis O'Neill 83
Part Two: Guatemala City and Country
The Security Guard Industry in Guatemala: Rural Communities and Urban
Violence / Avery Dickins de Girón 103
Guatemala's New Violence as Structural Violence: Notes from the Highlands /
Peter Benson, Kedron Thomas, and Edward F. Fischer 127
Spaces of Structural Adjustment in Guatemala's Apparel Industry / Kedron
Thomas 147
Hands of Love: Christian Outreach and the Spatialization of Ethnicity /
Kevin Lewis O'Neill 165
References 193
Contributors 213
Index 215