Agrotropolis

Youth, Street, and Nation in the New Urban Guatemala

AvJ.T. Way

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

In Agrotropolis, historian J. T. Way traces the developments of Guatemalan urbanization and youth culture since 1983. In case studies that bring together political economy, popular music, and everyday life, Way explores the rise of urban space in towns seen as quintessentially "rural" and showcases grassroots cultural assertiveness. In a post-revolutionary era, young people coming of age on the globally inflected city street used popular culture as one means of creating a new national imaginary that rejects Guatemala's racially coded system of castes. Drawing on local sources, deep ethnographies, and the digital archive, Agrotropolis places working-class Maya and mestizo hometowns and creativity at the center of planetary urban history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-01-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520291850

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Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

J. T. Way is Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University and author of The Mayan in the Mall: Globalization, Development, and the Making of Modern Guatemala. He lived in Guatemala for ten years and has extensively studied the country’s popular class.

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"Agrotropolis is a remarkably authentic work of history that deserves serious attention especially at a time when thousands of Guatemalans continue to flee for their lives from a country where hope for social justice has dimmed."

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Agrotropolis1 • "Power’s Destiny": Political Economy and Popular Culture to 19862 • "Americamorfosis": Identities and Urbanization, 1987–19933 • "Not Fish, Not Iguana": Organized Bands and Agro-urbanization, 1994–19984 • "If Only You Could Live Here": The Emergence of La KY, 1999–20045 • "In the Jaws of These Gray Cities": Strategic Territorial Interventions, 2005–2012Conclusion: "Mi País"NotesWorks CitedIndex