J T Way

The Mayan in the Mall

Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This twentieth-century history of Guatemala begins with an analysis of the Grand Tikal Futura, a postmodern shopping mall with a faux-Mayan facade that is surrounded by a landscape of gated subdivisions, evangelical churches, motels, Kaqchikel-speaking villages, and some of the most poverty-stricken ghettos in the hemisphere.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780822351313
• ISBN-10: 0822351315
• Artikelnr.: 34163605

Autorenporträt

J. T. Way is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at Georgia State University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Grand Tikal Futura: "Put1. "Like Sturdy Little Animals":
Making the Modern Anti-Modern, 1920s-1944ting the Mayan in the Mall" 1
1. "Like Sturdy Little Animals": Making the Modern Anti-Modern, 1920s-1944
13
2. Chaos and Rationality: The Dialectic of the Guatemalan Ghetto 41
3. Oficios de su Sexo: Gender, the Informal Economy, and Anticommunist
Development 67
4. Making the Immoral Metropolis: Infrastructure, Economics, and War 94
5. Executing Capital: Green Revolution, Genocide, and the Transition to
Neoliberalism 124
6. A Society of Vendors: Contradictions and Everyday Life in the Guatemalan
Market 152
7. Cuatro Gramos Norte: Fragmentation and Concentration in the Wake of
Victory 181
Appendix. A Grass-roots List of Transnationals in Guatemala, circa 1978 210
Notes 217
Glossary 277
Bibliography 279
Index 301