The Mayan in the mall : globalization, development and the making of modern Guatemala / J. T. Way.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Way, John T. (John Thomas), 1966-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--Social aspects--Guatemala.

Economic development.

Globalization--Social aspects--Guatemala.

Globalization.

Globalization--Economic aspects--Guatemala.

Guatemala--Economic conditions--1985-.

Guatemala.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This twentieth-century history of Guatemala begins with an analysis of the Grand Tikal Futura, a postmodern shopping mall with a faux-Mayan facade that is surrounded by a landscape of gated subdivisions, evangelical churches, motels, Kaqchikel-speaking villages, and some of the most poverty-stricken ghettos in the hemisphere.

Contents:

"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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-275, [278]-299) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613582485

9780822394785

0822394782

9781280487255

1280487259

OCLC:

798063043