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Contents Acknowledgments Securing the City: An Introduction - Kedron Thomas, Kevin Lewis O'Neill, and Thomas Offit Part One: Urban History and Social Experience 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 Veliz and Kevin Lewis O'Neill Part Two: Guatemala City and Country 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 Contributors References Index

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