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Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Cecilia Menjívar investigates the role that violence plays in the lives of Ladina women in eastern Guatemala, a little-visited and little-studied region. While much has been written on the subject of political violence in Guatemala, Menjívar turns to a different form of suffering-the violence embedded in institutions and in everyday life so familiar and routine that it is often not recognized as such. Rather than painting Guatemala (or even Latin America) as having a cultural propensity for normalizing and accepting violence, Menjívar aims to develop an approach to examining structures of violence-profound inequality, exploitation and poverty, and gender ideologies that position women in vulnerable situations- grounded in women's experiences. In this way, her study provides a glimpse into the root causes of the increasing wave of feminicide in Guatemala, as well as in other Latin American countries, and offers observations relevant for understanding violence against women around the world today.

Women --- Ladino (Latin American people) --- Violence --- Social conditions. --- Violence against --- anthropology. --- asylum. --- catholicism. --- criminology. --- exploitation. --- female survivors. --- female victims. --- feminicide. --- gender inequality. --- gender norms. --- gender roles. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- guatemala. --- immigration. --- inequality. --- institutional violence. --- ladina. --- latin america. --- latina. --- microaggressions. --- migration. --- political violence. --- poverty. --- refugee. --- religion. --- sexuality. --- structural violence. --- underdeveloped countries. --- violence against women. --- violence. --- vulnerability. --- women. --- womens studies.

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Anthropologists and historians examine how postwar violence in Guatemala City is reconfiguring urban space, transforming the relationship between city and country, and exacerbating structures of inequality and ethnic discrimination.

Securing the city : an introduction / Kedron Thomas, Kevin Lewis O'Neill, and Thomas Offit -- Living Guatemala City, 1930s-2000s / Deborah Levenson -- Primero de julio : urban experiences of class decline and violence / Manuela Camus -- Cacique for a neoliberal age : a Maya retail empire on the streets of Guatemala City / Thomas Offit -- Privatization of public space : the displacement of street vendors in Guatemala City / Rodrigo J. Véliz and Kevin Lewis O'Neill -- The security guard industry in Guatemala : rural communities and urban violence / Avery Dickins de Girón -- Guatemala's new violence as structural violence : notes from the highlands / Peter Benson, Kedron Thomas, and Edward F. Fischer -- Spaces of structural adjustment in Guatemala's apparel industry -- Kedron Thomas -- Hands of love : Christian outreach and the spatialization of ethnicity / Kevin Lewis O'Neill. --- Neoliberalism --- Sociology, Urban --- Guatemala (Guatemala) --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Securing the city : an introduction / Kedron Thomas, Kevin Lewis O'Neill, and Thomas Offit -- Living Guatemala City, 1930s-2000s / Deborah Levenson -- Primero de julio : urban experiences of class decline and violence / Manuela Camus -- Cacique for a neoliberal age : a Maya retail empire on the streets of Guatemala City / Thomas Offit -- Privatization of public space : the displacement of street vendors in Guatemala City / Rodrigo J. Veliz and Kevin Lewis O'Neill -- The security guard industry in Guatemala : rural communities and urban violence / Avery Dickins de Giron -- Guatemala's new violence as structural violence : notes from the highlands / Peter Benson, Kedron Thomas, and Edward F. Fischer -- Spaces of structural adjustment in Guatemala's apparel industry -- Kedron Thomas -- Hands of love : Christian outreach and the spatialization of ethnicity / Kevin Lewis O'Neill.