Daniel M. Goldstein is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, the author of Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City and The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia, and the coeditor of Violent Democracies in Latin America, all also published by Duke University Press.

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Prologue  ix

Acknowledgements  xiii

1. The Fire  1

2. Writing, Reality, Truth  10

3. Don Rafo  15

4. The Informal Economy  18

5. Nacho  25

6. The Bolivian Experiment  33

7. Meet the Press 42

8. The Colonial City: Cochabamba, 1574–1900  46

9. Conflicts of Interest  54

10. Decolonizing Ethnographic Research  58

11. A Visit to the Cancha  64

12. The Informal State  74

13. The Modern City: Cochabamba, 1900–1953  80

14. Market Space, Market Time  87

15. Carnaval in the Cancha  95

16. Security and Chaos  102

17. The Informal City: Cochabamba, 1953–2014  108

18. Convenios  117

19. Political Geography  122

20. Fieldwork in a Flash  131

21. Women's Work  139

22. Sovereignty and Security  148

23. Resisting Privatization  154

24. Don Silvio  161

25. Character  167

26. Exploitability  175

27. Market Men  182

28. Webs of Illegality  190

29. Men in Black  194

30. At Home in the Market  200

31. Owners of the Sidewalk  207

32. The Seminar  214

33. March of the Ambulantes  222

34. Complications  230

35. The Archive and the System  235

36. Goodbyes  240

37. Insecurity and Informality  246

Epilogue  252

Notes  257

References  293

Index  313

Daniel M. Goldstein is Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University, the author of Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City and The Spectacular City: Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia, and the coeditor of Violent Democracies in Latin America, all also published by Duke University Press.