Anthropologists and historians examine how postwar violence in Guatemala City is reconfiguring urban space, transforming the relationship between city and country, and exacerbating structures of inequality and ethnic discrimination.

Acknowledgments vii
Securing the City: An Introduction / Kedron Thomas, Kevin Lewis O'Neill, and Thomas Offit 1
Part One: Urban History and Social Experience
Living Guatemala City, 1930s-2000s / Deborah Levenson 25
Primero de Julio: Urban Experiences of Class Decline and Violence / Manuela Camus 49
Cacique for a Neoliberal Age: A Maya Retail Empire on the Streets of Guatemala City / Thomas Offit 67
Privatization of Public Sphere: The Displacement of Street Vendors in Guatemala City / Rodrigo J. Véliz and Kevin Lewis O'Neill 83
Part Two: Guatemala City and Country
The Security Guard Industry in Guatemala: Rural Communities and Urban Violence / Avery Dickins de Girón 103
Guatemala's New Violence as Structural Violence: Notes from the Highlands / Peter Benson, Kedron Thomas, and Edward F. Fischer 127
Spaces of Structural Adjustment in Guatemala's Apparel Industry / Kedron Thomas 147
Hands of Love: Christian Outreach and the Spatialization of Ethnicity / Kevin Lewis O'Neill 165
References 193
Contributors 213
Index 215

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