The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia

Author:   Daniel M. Goldstein
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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9780822333708


Pages:   296
Publication Date:   18 August 2004
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Author:   Daniel M. Goldstein
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9780822333708


ISBN 10:   0822333708
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   18 August 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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""The Spectacular City is a highly original contribution to the ethnography of law, violence, and the state. I know of no other account that explores the connections between localism and violence so thoroughly, nor through the lens of performance."" Carol Greenhouse, co-editor of Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change ""The Spectacular City is a highly original contribution to the ethnography of law, violence, and the state. Daniel M. 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


The Spectacular City is a highly original contribution to the ethnography of law, violence, and the state. I know of no other account that explores the connections between localism and violence so thoroughly, nor through the lens of performance. Carol Greenhouse, co-editor of Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change


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Daniel M. Goldstein is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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