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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kevin Lewis O’Neill is Assistant Professor in the Department and Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. He is the author of City of God: Christian Citizenship in Postwar Guatemala and a co-editor of Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation, also published by Duke University Press. Kedron Thomas is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University.
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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
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
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