The Mayan in the mall : globalization, development and the making of modern Guatemala
This book examines life, urbanization, residency, and markets in Guatemala City over the course of most of the 20th century through consideration of the relationship between poverty, development, the trajectory of politics in Guatemala, and real life. In surveying development, urban growth, informal settlements, and changing cityscapes over several decades, the author argues that apparently distinct policies, whether unleashed under the revolutionary government of Jacobo Arbenz or subsequent right-wing dictatorships, were all different elements in modernist development. The author explores the workings of ordinary life, through novels, archival research, the history of meat processing, and the knowledge of the city's streets to document the human side of dysfunctional urban growth
x, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780822351207, 9780822351313, 082235120X, 0822351315
748336613
"Like sturdy little animals" : making the modern anti-modern, 1920s-1944
Chaos and rationality : the dialectic of the Guatemalan ghetto
Oficios de su sexo : gender, the informal economy, and anticommunist development
Making the immoral metropolis : infrastructure, economics and war
Executing capital : green revolution, genocide, and the transition to neoliberalism
A society of vendors : contradictions and everyday life in the Guatemalan market
Cuatro gramos norte : fragmentation and concentration in the wake of victory
Appendix
Glossary