The Spectacular City : Violence and Performance in Urban Bolivia /
This 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.
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2004.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: becoming visible in neoliberal Bolivia
- Ethnography, governmentality, and urban life
- Urbanism, modernity, and migration in Cochabamba
- Villa Sebastián Pagador and the politics of community
- Performing national culture in the fiesta de San Miguel
- Spectacular violence and citizen security
- Conclusion: theaters of memory and the violence of citizenship.