Securing the City: Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala - Couverture souple

 
9780822349587: Securing the City: Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala
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ISBN 10 : 0822349582 ISBN 13 : 9780822349587
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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 Girón, Edward F. Fischer, Deborah Levenson, Thomas Offit, Kevin Lewis O'Neill, Kedron Thomas, Rodrigo José Véliz

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822349582
ISBN 13 
9780822349587
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
230
Éditeur
O'Neill
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780822349396: Securing the City: Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala

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ISBN 10 :  0822349396 ISBN 13 :  9780822349396
Editeur : Duke University Press, 2011
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