Securing the City (eBook, PDF)

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Giron, Edward F. Fischer, Deborah Levenson, Thomas Offit, Kevin Lewis O'Neill, Kedron Thomas, Rodrigo Jose Veliz

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822393924
• Artikelnr.: 54933553

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