Spectacular City - Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia

Informationen zum Autor Daniel M. Goldstein is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Klappentext This study analyzes a popular festival and vigilante lynching, examining them as a form of political spectacle performed by improverished people who want to gain access to the potential benefits of citizenship in a modern city. Zusammenfassung This study analyzes a popular festival and vigilante lynching! examining them as a form of political spectacle performed by improverished people who want to gain access to the potential benefits of citizenship in a modern city. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Series ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Becoming Visible in Neoliberal Bolivia 1 1. Ethnography, Governmentality, and Urban Life 29 2. Urbanism, Modernity, and Migration to Cochabamba 53 3. Villa Sebastian Pagador and the Politics of Community 90 4. Performing National Culture in the Fiesta de San Miguel 134 5. Spectacular Violence and Citizen Security 179 Conclusion: Theaters of Memory and the Violence of Citizenship 215 Notes 225 References 239 Index 265

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Daniel M Goldstein, Daniel M. Goldstein
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 18.08.2004
• EAN: 9780822333609
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3360-9
• Seiten: 296
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Serien: Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu; Latin America Otherwise; Latin America Otherwise: Langu
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Ethnologie > Völkerkunde