O'Neill / Thomas Securing the City

Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9392-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Neill, Kevin Lewis

Thomas, Kedron

Weitere Mitwirkende

Offit, Thomas

Levenson, Deborah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.