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Securing the city : Neoliberalism, space, and insecurity in postwar Guatemala

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Titre

Securing the city : Neoliberalism, space, and insecurity in postwar Guatemala

Sujet

Guatemala, société urbaine, urbanité, violence urbaine, espace public, emploi, privatisation, ségrégation urbaine, sécurité, espace urbain, délinquance, O'Neill Kevin Lewis, Thomas Kedron, néolibéralisme, Guatemala City

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Abstract from the publisher :
 
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.
 
Contents :
 
Securing the City: An Introduction - Kedron Thomas, Kevin Lewis O'Neill, and Thomas Offit

Part One: Urban History and Social Experience
Living Guatemala City, 1930s–2000s - Deborah Levenson
Primero de Julio: Urban Experiences of Class Decline and Violence - Manuela Camus
Cacique for a Neoliberal Age: A Maya Retail Empire on the Streets of Guatemala City - Thomas Offit
Privatization of Public Sphere: The Displacement of Street Vendors in Guatemala City - Rodrigo J. Véliz and Kevin Lewis O'Neill

Part Two: Guatemala City and Country
The Security Guard Industry in Guatemala: Rural Communities and Urban Violence - Avery Dickins de Girón
Guatemala's New Violence as Structural Violence: Notes from the Highlands - Peter Benson, Kedron Thomas, and Edward F. Fischer
Spaces of Structural Adjustment in Guatemala's Apparel Industry - Kedron Thomas
Hands of Love: Christian Outreach and the Spatialization of Ethnicity - Kevin Lewis O'Neill
  Kevin Lewis O'Neill is Assistant Professor in the Deoartment and Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. Kedron Thomas is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University.      

Créateur

NC

Éditeur

Duke University Press

Date

2011

Format

240

Type

Ouvrage