Agrotropolis : Youth, Street, and Nation in the New Urban Guatemala
by
J.T. Way
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0520291867
ISBN-13
9780520291867
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 26th, 2021
Print length
328 Pages
Weight
440 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.80 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
History of the Americas
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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.
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