Ana Villarreal is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. Her main areas of research, writing and teaching are urban inequality, emotions, and violence. Her work has appeared in Sociological Theory, Emotions and Society, City & Community, among other venues.

Ana Villarreal expertly theorizes how fear and danger transform daily routines, simultaneously isolating and regrouping people, through acutely class-determined strategies. This moving ethnography of Monterrey, a wealthy and unequal city that many thought immune to violence, adds crucial nuance and depth to our understanding of the relations between violence, fear, and inequality.

• Chapter 1: Fear as an Everyday ProblemChapter 2: Ubiquitous ViolenceChapter 3: The Logistics of FearChapter 4: Defending San PedroChapter 5: Restructuring NightlifeChapter 6: An Oasis from WarChapter 7: Fear and Inequality at the Onset of CrisesAppendix: Gaining DistanceAcknowledgments ReferencesIndex

Ana Villarreal is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. Her main areas of research, writing and teaching are urban inequality, emotions, and violence. Her work has appeared in Sociological Theory, Emotions and Society, City & Community, among other venues.

Ana Villarreal expertly theorizes how fear and danger transform daily routines, simultaneously isolating and regrouping people, through acutely class-determined strategies. This moving ethnography of Monterrey, a wealthy and unequal city that many thought immune to violence, adds crucial nuance and depth to our understanding of the relations between violence, fear, and inequality.

• Chapter 1: Fear as an Everyday ProblemChapter 2: Ubiquitous ViolenceChapter 3: The Logistics of FearChapter 4: Defending San PedroChapter 5: Restructuring NightlifeChapter 6: An Oasis from WarChapter 7: Fear and Inequality at the Onset of CrisesAppendix: Gaining DistanceAcknowledgments ReferencesIndex

Ana Villarreal is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University. Her main areas of research, writing and teaching are urban inequality, emotions, and violence. Her work has appeared in Sociological Theory, Emotions and Society, City & Community, among other venues.

Ana Villarreal expertly theorizes how fear and danger transform daily routines, simultaneously isolating and regrouping people, through acutely class-determined strategies. This moving ethnography of Monterrey, a wealthy and unequal city that many thought immune to violence, adds crucial nuance and depth to our understanding of the relations between violence, fear, and inequality.

• Chapter 1: Fear as an Everyday ProblemChapter 2: Ubiquitous ViolenceChapter 3: The Logistics of FearChapter 4: Defending San PedroChapter 5: Restructuring NightlifeChapter 6: An Oasis from WarChapter 7: Fear and Inequality at the Onset of CrisesAppendix: Gaining DistanceAcknowledgments ReferencesIndex