Daniel M Goldstein

The Spectacular City

Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia

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Produktbeschreibung

This study analyzes a popular festival and vigilante lynching, examining them as a form of political spectacle performed by improverished people who want to gain access to the potential benefits of citizenship in a modern city.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780822333609
• ISBN-10: 0822333600
• Artikelnr.: 21613525

Autorenporträt

Daniel M. Goldstein

Inhaltsangabe

About the Series ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Becoming Visible in Neoliberal Bolivia 1
1. Ethnography, Governmentality, and Urban Life 29
2. Urbanism, Modernity, and Migration to Cochabamba 53
3. Villa Sebastian Pagador and the Politics of Community 90
4. Performing National Culture in the Fiesta de San Miguel 134
5. Spectacular Violence and Citizen Security 179
Conclusion: Theaters of Memory and the Violence of Citizenship 215
Notes 225
References 239
Index 265