Securing the City

Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala

Autor: Kevin Lewis O`neill, Kedron Thomas

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Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. F...

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Autor

Kevin Lewis O`neill, Kedron Thomas

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2011

Pagini

232

EAN

9780822349396

ISBN

0822349396

Enbook ID

04939319

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

463

Dimensiuni

162 x 237 x 21

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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 volume 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 structures of inequality and ethnic discrimination that have deep historical roots. 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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