{"product_id":"the-spectacular-city-9780822333609","title":"The Spectacular City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis study analyzes a popular festival and vigilante lynching, examining them as a form of political spectacle performed by improverished people who want to gain access to the potential benefits of citizenship in a modern city.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Spectacular City\u003c\/i\u003e is a highly original contribution to the ethnography of law, violence, and the state. Goldstein explores the connections between localism and violence both as situated action and as genres of performance, resulting in a nuanced analysis of politics between state and nonstate forms.”—Carol Greenhouse, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eEthnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fascinating and rich in ethnographic detail, \u003ci\u003eThe Spectacular City\u003c\/i\u003e is particularly important at this moment because it examines the increase in common crime that has accompanied the consolidation of neoliberal capitalism in Latin America. Although it is widely appreciated that crime has gotten worse, there are very few anthropological studies that explore this phenomenon at the local level.”—Lesley Gill, author of \u003ci\u003eThe School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Series ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Becoming Visible in Neoliberal Bolivia 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Ethnography, Governmentality, and Urban Life 29\u003cbr\u003e 2. Urbanism, Modernity, and Migration to Cochabamba 53\u003cbr\u003e 3. Villa Sebastian Pagador and the Politics of Community 90\u003cbr\u003e 4. Performing National Culture in the Fiesta de San Miguel 134\u003cbr\u003e 5. Spectacular Violence and Citizen Security 179\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Theaters of Memory and the Violence of Citizenship 215\u003cbr\u003e Notes 225\u003cbr\u003e References 239\u003cbr\u003e Index 265","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406036083031,"sku":"9780822333609","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822333609.jpg?v=1730494322","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-spectacular-city-9780822333609","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}