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The spectacular city : violence and performance in urban Bolivia / Daniel M. Goldstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldstein, Daniel M., 1965-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Latin America otherwise.
- Latin America otherwise
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social action--Political aspects--Bolivia--Cochabamba.
- Social action.
- People with social disabilities--Bolivia--Cochabamba--Political activity.
- People with social disabilities.
- Festivals--Bolivia--Cochabamba.
- Festivals.
- Lynching--Bolivia--Cochabamba.
- Lynching.
- Violence--Bolivia--Cochabamba.
- Violence.
- Political participation--Bolivia--Cochabamba.
- Political participation.
- Villa Sebastián Pagador (Cochabamba, Bolivia).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: becoming visible in neoliberal Bolivia
- Ethnography, governmentality, and urban life
- Urbanism, modernity, and migration in Cochabamba
- Villa Sebastian 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613023889
- 9781283023887
- 1283023881
- 9780822386018
- 0822386011
- OCLC:
- 191855673
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