| Agrotropolis: Youth, Street, and Nation in the New Urban Guatemala Contributor(s): Way, J. T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520291867 ISBN-13: 9780520291867 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Central America - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
| Dewey: 307.760 |
| LCCN: 2020029675 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.95 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |