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 discrimination.
"Contributors." 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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