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The Spectacular City
Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia
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Daniel M. Goldstein
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Edited by:
Walter D. Mignolo
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2004
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Daniel M. Goldstein is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Reviews
“The Spectacular City is a highly original contribution to the ethnography of law, violence, and the state. Goldstein explores the connections between localism and violence both as situated action and as genres of performance, resulting in a nuanced analysis of politics between state and nonstate forms.”—Carol Greenhouse, coeditor of Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change
“Fascinating and rich in ethnographic detail, The Spectacular City is particularly important at this moment because it examines the increase in common crime that has accompanied the consolidation of neoliberal capitalism in Latin America. Although it is widely appreciated that crime has gotten worse, there are very few anthropological studies that explore this phenomenon at the local level.”—Lesley Gill, author of The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
August 18, 2004
eBook ISBN:
9780822386018
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
296
Other:
23 b&w photos, 1 map
