Description: Securing the CityNeoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala Author(s): Kevin Lewis O'Neill, Kedron Thomas Format: Paperback Publisher: Duke University Press, United States Imprint: Duke University Press ISBN-13: 9780822349587, 978-0822349587 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 [url] 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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Book Title: Securing the City
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Securing the City: Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Anthropology, History
Item Height: 235 mm
Type: Textbook
Author: Kedron Thomas, Kevin Lewis O'neill
Subject Area: Urban Planning
Item Width: 156 mm
Format: Paperback
