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The Spectacular City - Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia (Hardcover)
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The Spectacular City - Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia (Hardcover)
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Since the Bolivian revolution in 1952, migrants have come to the
city of Cochabamba, seeking opportunity and relief from rural
poverty. They have settled in barrios on the city's outskirts only
to find that the rights of citizens-basic rights of property and
security, especially protection from crime-are not available to
them. In this ethnography, Daniel M. Goldstein considers the
significance of and similarities between two kinds of
spectacles-street festivals and the vigilante lynching of
criminals-as they are performed in the Cochabamba barrio of Villa
Pagador. By examining folkloric festivals and vigilante violence
within the same analytical framework, Goldstein shows how
marginalized urban migrants, shut out of the city and neglected by
the state, use performance to assert their national belonging and
to express their grievances against the inadequacies of the state's
official legal order.During the period of Goldstein's fieldwork in
Villa Pagador in the mid-1990s, residents attempted to lynch
several thieves and attacked the police who tried to intervene.
Since that time, there have been hundreds of lynchings in the poor
barrios surrounding Cochabamba. Goldstein presents the lynchings of
thieves as a form of horrific performance, with elements of
critique and political action that echo those of local festivals.
He explores the consequences and implications of extralegal
violence for human rights and the rule of law in the contemporary
Andes. In rich detail, he provides an in-depth look at the
development of Villa Pagador and of the larger metropolitan area of
Cochabamba, illuminating a contemporary Andean city from both
microethnographic and macrohistorical perspectives. Focusing on
indigenous peoples' experiences of urban life and their attempts to
manage their sociopolitical status within the broader context of
neoliberal capitalism and political decentralization, The
Spectacular City highlights the deep connections between
performance, law, violence, and the state.
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